Ms. Marvel #5

Someone — or something — wearing Ms. Marvel's signature black costume and flowing blonde hair is pressing a gloved finger to green-tinged lips in a deliberate, unsettling "shh" gesture on Greg Horn's striking cover for this 2009 Marvel issue. The eerie green skin peeking out beneath that familiar disguise hints at a tension between appearances and hidden truths that makes this cover impossible to look away from. Horn's photorealistic painted style gives the image a cool, cinematic intensity that sets the mood perfectly.