Invincible #31

Trading capes and combat for an African savanna at sunset, Invincible #31 sets a striking, unexpectedly tranquil mood — a young man and a blonde woman sit together in the golden grass while a red-haired woman stands apart behind them, a giraffe grazing calmly in the warm distance. It's a refreshingly character-driven image from Ryan Ottley, whose linework captures both the easy beauty of the landscape and the quietly charged tension between the three figures. Robert Kirkman's series may bill itself as "probably the best superhero comic in the universe," and covers like this — intimate and sun-drenched rather than action-packed — suggest there's real emotional storytelling underneath the superheroics.