Doctor Strange #9

Doctor Strange stands braced before the tall windows of his Bleecker Street Sanctum, twin glowing mandalas of mystical energy blazing in his hands as he gazes upward at some unseen threat — it's a striking image that captures the Sorcerer Supreme at the ready. The cover tagline promises "a terrifying new foe cometh to Bleecker Street," setting a suitably ominous tone for Mark Waid's "Bleecker" chapter. Jesús Saiz handles both the writing-adjacent art duties and the cover fully solo, and his warm golden spellwork against the darkened interior makes this 2019 issue genuinely hard to put down.