Invincible #78

Against a sky burning with amber clouds, Ryan Ottley's cover for this 2011 installment of Robert Kirkman's Invincible centers on an intensely emotional moment: a red-haired woman and a battered, bruised young man locked in a desperate kiss, their expressions carrying the full weight of whatever they've endured. A strip of panels along the bottom hints at further tension, showing two other faces — a man and a dark-haired woman — in close, charged confrontation. Bearing the banner of "The Viltrumite War," issue #78 promises that even amid cosmic-scale conflict, the human (and not-so-human) heart remains very much at stake.