Earthdivers #16

The sixth chapter of the "1776" arc wraps up with a cover that stops you cold: a single housefly, rendered in stark black ink by Rafael Albuquerque, crouches over a spreading pool of deep red blood against a cold grey-white surface. It's a quietly unsettling image — intimate in scale yet loaded with dread — that feels perfectly in step with the dark, unflinching tone Stephen Graham Jones, Davide Gianfelice, and Joana Lafuente have brought to this series throughout 2024. If the title "A Bright Point" promises any light at the end of the tunnel, this cover suggests the path there runs through something ugly first.