Doomsday Clock #8

Few covers in 2019 stopped readers cold quite like this one — a fluffy kitten rendered in striking crimson tones stares directly out from the page, its luminous golden eyes projecting an unnerving calm that feels anything but innocent given the series' weight. Gary Frank's cover art lavishes extraordinary detail on every whisker and tuft of fur, turning an unexpectedly intimate close-up into something quietly unsettling. Issue eight of twelve in this maxiseries, "Save Humanity" arrives at a pivotal stretch of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's ambitious DC story, and this deceptively tranquil cover makes the promise of what's inside all the more intriguing.