Mara #5

Ming Doyle's cover for Mara #5 is a striking, red-drenched image of Mara herself thrusting both glowing hands toward the viewer, her expression fierce and unwavering against a looming radioactive symbol that fills the background. That visual tension — a lone figure confronting something vast and dangerous — captures exactly the charged atmosphere Brian Wood and Doyle have built throughout this Image series. Jordie Bellaire's monochromatic red palette gives the whole composition an urgency that makes this 2013 series hard to set aside.