Low #4

Greg Tocchini's cover for this 2014 Image series captures a tense standoff on what appears to be a barren, sun-bleached surface — a lightly armored woman crouches cautiously behind a crumbling wall while a massive, heavily armed figure in spiked battle armor looms on the other side, heavy weapon in hand. Between them, a weathered mural of faces and a defaced flag bearing a red symbol hint at a world with a complicated, fractured history. Rick Remender and Sebastian Girner's Low continues to build its atmospheric science-fiction world with this striking, dust-soaked image.