Descender #27

Dustin Nguyen's delicate watercolor work is on full display here, as a massive, segmented robot looms over an alien landscape of pale stone spires, its red sensor-lights glowing with quiet menace. Facing it across the composition, a sleek spacecraft blazes upward on a column of fire, its crescent-horned silhouette sharp against a hazy, atmospheric sky. Jeff Lemire and Nguyen kick off "Old Worlds" with issue #27, and this cover alone captures the series' signature tension between ancient scale and fragile motion beautifully.