Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme #9

The sheer scale of the cover says it all: a towering, dark blue creature dominates the image, its massive clawed hands closing around two tiny but defiant figures — Doctor Strange in his sorcerer's robes and a red demonic entity — who are clearly not going down without a fight. The sense of desperate, magical struggle packed into that crushing grip makes for a striking, unsettling composition, rendered with moody confidence by cover artists Javier Rodríguez and Álvaro López. If you've been following this 2017 series, issue #9 looks like exactly the kind of high-stakes, otherworldly confrontation that makes mystical Marvel so compelling.