Defiance #6

A haunting mood pervades this 2003 Image Comics entry in "The Scabbard" arc — part two of four — as a commanding, darkly adorned woman sits enthroned before a jagged, gothic iron seat, flanked by four unsettling child-like figures in various states of eerie stillness. The muted, desaturated palette gives the whole scene a ghostly, otherworldly weight that lingers. Kang, Suh, and Barre deliver cover art that sets an unmistakably foreboding tone right from the tagline: "At the end of the journey, no one expects…