Doctor Strange #18

Mark Waid and Jesús Saiz's run on Doctor Strange reaches a visceral high point with this 2019 installment, "Strange Visitor." The cover — fully rendered by Saiz — shows the Sorcerer Supreme ensnared by a mass of enormous, toothy black tentacles that coil around his entire body, his white-gloved hand straining upward as his expression twists between defiance and desperation. It's a striking image that makes clear Stephen Strange is facing something far beyond the ordinary horrors of the mystic arts.