Monstress #44

Sana Takeda's cover for Monstress #44 is a breathtaking vision — a masked, long-haired figure crowned with animal-eared headgear rises from an intricate cascade of feathered wings and dark, writhing tendrils, all bathed in a warm golden light that radiates from above like something between divine and dreadful. A single glowing red eye peers out from deep within the ornate, mechanical-organic mass below her, hinting at the layered forces coiling through Marjorie Liu's world. This 2023 Image series continues to set a high bar for ambitious fantasy comics, and issue #44 is no exception.