Great Pacific #9

Great Pacific #9 continues the "Nation Building" arc with a cover by Martín Morazzo that reframes the series' central conflict as a literal board game — figures of the main cast, including a young man holding a star-emblazoned flag, a native woman, and a mysterious red-cloaked figure, stand as game pieces on a map of named territories like Worthington Square and the Northern Marsh, with dice, gold tokens, a golf-hole flag, and even a lurking octopus rounding out the scene. It's a cleverly unsettling image that captures the high-stakes maneuvering of would-be nation-builders on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Joe Harris and Morazzo's 2013 Image series continues to find fresh, provocative ways to visualize its ambitious premise.