Inferno #3

Part of Marvel's 2015 Secret Wars event, Inferno #3 delivers a cover that earns every bit of its title — a horned, armored warrior woman cracks a whip at a massive, snarling symbiote-like creature with jagged teeth and a single glowing eye, all set against a hellish, smoke-stained sky and Gothic stone architecture. Javier Garrón's linework crackles with tension, the sheer scale of the beast looming over its defiant opponent making the confrontation feel genuinely dangerous. If this issue's cover is any measure of what's inside, the series is burning at full intensity right at its midpoint.