Eclipse #9

Zack Kaplan's sun-scorched dystopia reaches a fever pitch with this ninth issue, featuring a cover by James Stokoe that plunges viewers into a chaotic urban battlefield — a crumbling New York City street canyon, complete with the Chrysler Building looming in the distance beneath a blinding burst of light, as armed soldiers and desperate figures clash amid overturned vehicles and rubble. Stokoe's famously intricate linework packs every inch of the scene with gritty detail, from the tattered American flag to the sprawling mob filling the decimated avenue. At $3.99 from Image, this 2018 installment looks like the series' tension has been building toward something monumental.