Mystique #22

Mystique's blue face dominates this haunting cover by Mike Mayhew, her glowing yellow eyes and vivid red lips emerging from a wash of blue as a constellation of other faces — male, female, young, old — melts around and beneath her, with a chrome skull perched ominously above. It's a striking visual shorthand for Marvel's most accomplished shapeshifter: anyone could be her, or she could be anyone. "Quiet Part 3 of 5," written by Sean McKeever with interior art by Manuel Garcia and Raúl Fernández, promises that this 2005 arc still has plenty of intrigue left to unfold.