Manifest Destiny #4

Matthew Roberts and Owen Gieni put a fierce, bloodied warrior woman front and center on this fourth issue of Image's Manifest Destiny — she wields a massive feathered spear mid-swing, her battle cry visible on her face as crimson streaks arc dramatically across the pale background. Chris Dingess's genre-bending reimagining of the Lewis and Clark expedition keeps building its dangerous, monster-haunted American frontier, and covers like this make clear that the wilderness bites back hard. A striking chapter in one of 2014's most ambitious Image series.