East of West #24

East of West #24 brings another unsettling chapter of Hickman and Dragotta's alternate-history apocalypse saga, with a cover that commands attention through sheer restraint. Dragotta renders a grotesque, heavily textured figure — skull-like and hunched — cradling tiny bat-winged creatures in its gnarled hands, the muted gold-and-grey palette lending the image an eerie, almost ceremonial gravity. It's a quietly ominous composition that captures exactly the kind of dread this series does so well.