Doctor Fate #3

This haunting cover for Doctor Fate #3 (2015) presents a close-up of an older man's face, blindfolded with a strip of cloth covered in Egyptian hieroglyphics — and a single crimson tear, shaped into an ankh, trailing down his cheek. Intriguingly, a tiny figure in a yellow-circled costume stands embedded within the hieroglyphic band itself, suggesting forces far larger than any one person at work. Sonny Liew's painterly cover art sets a deeply atmospheric tone for Paul Levitz's "Flood Tide," promising a story where ancient mythology and mortal vulnerability are very much intertwined.