Inhuman #5

A dark-robed figure with glowing blue eyes sits enthroned on a cracked stone seat, clutching a vivid crimson cape that pools and sweeps dramatically across the shadowed floor — a striking visual that echoes the story title "Empty Throne" with quiet, unsettling power. Ryan Stegman's cover art radiates menace through its contrast of deep blacks and that bold slash of red, making this 2014 issue impossible to overlook. Charles Soule's Inhuman was hitting its stride, and issue #5 makes a compelling case for why.