Descender #15

Dustin Nguyen's delicate watercolor cover for Descender #15 places two young, road-worn figures at the heart of this penultimate "Singularities" chapter — a red-scarfed young man in a battered green jacket and a sharp-eyed girl in a fur-trimmed coat with goggles perched in her spiky hair, both staring out with quiet, steely resolve. The stark white background strips everything down to just these two characters, giving the image an almost haunting intimacy that suits Jeff Lemire's emotionally grounded sci-fi storytelling perfectly. With the five-part arc nearly complete, this 2016 Image series continues to show why it earned its devoted following.