Echolands #1

Echolands #1 launches J. H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman's ambitious new series with a striking wide-format cover that immediately signals something different — a blonde woman in a sweeping red cloak and hood lunges dynamically across the image, wielding a flaming staff with fierce, purple-eyed intensity. Williams III's cover artwork is rendered with the lush, painterly detail he's known for, and Dave Stewart's colors make that cascade of crimson fabric absolutely sing against the geometric circular design framing the title. "Hope's Crucible" promises a story as bold and kinetic as this opener suggests.