Mutant X #11

Mutant X #11 brings a genuinely unsettling mood to Marvel's 1999 alternate-universe series, and the cover by Cary Nord (inks by Andrew Pepoy) delivers it with style. A wide-eyed young Scotty Summers clutches a teddy bear in bed while a shadowy, long-haired figure with glowing red eyes looms in a lightning-cracked doorway — the tagline "Some Nightmares Come True!" says everything you need to know about the tension at play. If you've been following Alex Summers' strange journey through this twisted version of the Marvel universe, this child-in-peril cover makes issue #11 a hard one to put back on the shelf.