Namor: The First Mutant #3

Part three of "Royal Blood" finds Namor in a hauntingly beautiful moment of vulnerability — cover art by Jae Lee renders the Sub-Mariner cradling an unconscious woman in his arms as ghostly, clawed figures drift menacingly through the luminous blue depths around them. The tension between Namor's fierce protectiveness and the encroaching supernatural threat gives the image a quiet, unsettling power that's hard to shake. Stuart Moore and Ariel Olivetti's Curse of the Mutants tie-in continues to make a strong case that Namor's corner of the Marvel universe is one of its most atmospheric.