Darkwing Duck: Negaduck #3

Negaduck — St. Canard's most gleefully rotten villain — finds himself in a genuinely dire predicament on Jae Lee's striking cover, dragged underwater by a tangle of massive tentacles coiling around his trademark yellow coat and red hat. The murky teal depths and rising air bubbles make the peril feel visceral, and it's a testament to the series' ambition that even its villain gets this kind of pulse-quickening treatment. Writer Jeff Parker and artist-inker-colorist Ciro Cangialosi's 2023 Dynamite series continues to prove that Negaduck deserves the spotlight all to himself.