Mars Attacks #6

IDW's Mars Attacks #6 brings "The Martian Cold War" to a fever pitch, and John McCrea's cover captures the chaos perfectly — a human figure is caught mid-blast, literally disintegrating in a splash of icy energy while an armed Martian warrior stands coolly in the foreground, ray gun in hand, with flying saucers looming in the smoky sky behind it. The contrast between the invader's calm menace and the carnage unfolding above makes for a genuinely unsettling image that channels everything great about the Mars Attacks tradition. John Layman and McCrea, with colors by Andrew Elder, keep this 2012 series firing on all cylinders.