Invincible #132

A blood-soaked, ember-filled sky sets a deeply unsettling stage on Ryan Ottley's cover for this 2017 Skybound/Image issue, where a mustached man in a fur-collared garment stares wide-eyed, his face splattered with blood, as a dripping crimson hand reaches toward him from the foreground. The tagline — "Nothing can prepare you for what Thragg has done. Be afraid." — makes the dread palpable without giving anything away. Invincible #132 promises the kind of visceral, high-stakes storytelling that made this series one of Image's most compelling runs.