Forgetless #5

The penultimate arc of Nick Spencer's Forgetless closes out with this haunting image: a young woman in a striped top kneels over a fallen, cartoonish mascot figure — its blank, wide eyes staring upward while blood seeps from a wound on its chest, all set against a fractured diamond-pattern background in warm, candy-bright colors. The contrast between that cheerful harlequin backdrop and the quiet grief on her face gives the cover a genuinely unsettling beauty. With interior art from Scott Forbes, Marley Zarcone, and Jorge Coelho, this 2010 Image series continues to balance style and strangeness in equal measure.