Mage, Book Three: The Hero Denied #4

Matt Wagner's Mage: The Hero Denied continues its third and final chapter with this striking issue, subtitled "Hell is Empty" — and the cover makes that title feel viscerally earned. A powerfully built, bearded man thrusts one arm skyward in defiance while a mass of grasping, clawed monstrous hands surge up around him from every direction, threatening to drag him down. It's a compelling image of one man's will set against overwhelming darkness, rendered with Wagner's characteristically muscular linework.