Manifest Destiny #42

Chris Dingess and Matthew Roberts' wilderness horror series delivers another quietly unsettling moment in issue #42, with a cover scene rendered in Roberts' moody, painterly style and colored beautifully by Owen Gieni. The image draws you in close: a pale, golden bear cub and a small, wide-eyed child face each other in a dim forest clearing beside a massive boulder, their expressions hovering somewhere between curiosity and wariness. It's an intimate, almost tender tableau that perfectly captures the series' gift for finding strange wonder lurking at the edges of the American frontier.