Mystique #19

Mike Mayhew's cover for this 2004 Marvel issue puts Mystique front and center in a striking low-angle composition — blue-skinned, yellow-eyed, red-haired, and dressed in sleek black leather, she levels a pistol in each hand with cool, unflinching confidence. It's a bold visual statement for the shape-shifting spy's solo series, written by Sean McKeever with interior art by Manuel García and Raúl Fernández. "Ingression" promises the kind of charged, morally ambiguous intrigue that makes Mystique such a compelling lead.