Mage, Book Three: The Hero Denied #13

Matt Wagner's Mage: The Hero Denied reaches its thirteenth chapter with a cover that wastes no time establishing the stakes — a bearded man in a black shirt stands his ground, staring up unflinchingly at a massive creature whose dripping, webbed claws and rows of jagged, red-rimmed teeth loom over him with unmistakable menace. The sheer scale of the beast against the solitary human figure gives the image a quiet, tense gravity that's more unsettling than any amount of bombast could manage. Wagner's clean linework and Brennan Wagner's earthy, desaturated palette make this one of the series' most compellingly composed covers yet.