Island #2

Island #2 continues Image's ambitious anthology format with one of the most visually arresting covers of 2015 — and it's easy to see why. Emma Ríos's cover art presents a luminous, dreamlike scene: a serene face floating at the waterline, a massive scaled serpentine creature rising from the depths below, and glowing golden orbs drifting alongside a miniature structure on a tiny island, all rendered in a hauntingly beautiful palette of teal, gold, and silver. Brandon Graham pulls triple duty — and then some — as writer, artist, inker, colorist, and letterer on the concluding half of "Dagger Proof Mummy," making this a remarkably personal creative statement wrapped in an equally remarkable package.