Low #5

Greg Tocchini's watercolor-drenched cover for Low #5 is a visceral tableau: two figures — a tattooed woman and a bearded man — are ensnared within the clutches of a massive crimson mech adorned with dangling chains, skulls, and hooks, its blue-visored head looming overhead like a mechanical predator. The warm amber and deep red palette gives the image an almost painterly, operatic weight that suits Rick Remender's undersea sci-fi series perfectly. At $3.50, this 2014 Image release is a striking entry in one of the decade's most visually ambitious ongoing titles.