Monstress #4

Sana Takeda's cover for this fourth issue is a breathtaking vision of dark transcendence — a young dark-haired woman stands with eyes closed and serene expression, a glowing teal stone set into the ornate markings on her chest, while an immense winged entity with a single great eye looms behind and above her, its feathered wings spreading across the entire composition in intricate gold and shadow. The layered symbolism and painterly detail Takeda brings to every inch of the image make it genuinely hard to look away. Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's Monstress was already turning heads in 2016, and this issue's cover captures exactly why.