Descender #23

Dustin Nguyen's watercolor cover for Descender #23 is a quietly haunting image: a young, red-haired figure in a dark jacket stands alone against a vast black cosmos, a pale full moon haloing their head while nebula-like clouds of deep crimson and violet drift in the void behind them. There's real melancholy in the pose — the figure looks slightly downward, isolated in the silence of space — that fits perfectly with Jeff Lemire and Nguyen's ongoing "Rise of the Robots" arc. A compelling entry point into one of Image's most visually distinctive sci-fi series of 2017.