John Carter: The Gods of Mars #4

Part four of five in Marvel's 2012 adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic Martian adventure finds John Carter at the center of a tense, atmospheric cover by Julian Totino Tedesco. The muscular, bare-chested Carter crouches forward with swords leveled at him from multiple angles, flanked by a dark-haired woman and a green-skinned, red-eyed Martian warrior armed with a blade — all three surrounded by ivy-draped stone walls touched with crimson. With Sam Humphries writing, Ramón Pérez on art, and Jordie Bellaire's moody color work inside, this penultimate chapter promises the kind of high-stakes Martian intrigue that made Burroughs' source material endure for a century.