John Carter: The End #4

Against a blood-red Martian sky, Garry Brown's cover for issue #4 fills the frame with a massive, alien creature gripping a long staff while a chaotic skirmish of cloaked and armored figures plays out behind it — the mood is foreboding and unmistakably Barsoomian. Brian Wood, Alex Cox, and Hayden Sherman's miniseries has been an atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Rice Burroughs' world, and this penultimate chapter — titled "The Old Man on the Ocean Floor" — promises the tension is only deepening. With one issue left in The End, the stakes feel suitably monumental.