New Mutants #6

Part of Marvel's 2009 Necrosha X crossover event, this issue opens with a genuinely unsettling cover by Adam Kubert — a blonde figure with glowing, cracked eyes and a corrupted, darkened hand reaches forward with an eerie tenderness, while other mutant figures loom in the shadowy background. The contrast between that almost-gentle pose and the evident necrotic decay makes for a quietly haunting image that sets a grim tone for Zeb Wells and Diógenes Neves's story. If this chapter's title — "001DEAD0LANGUAGE001" — is any indication, the New Mutants are about to contend with something far darker than ordinary adversaries.