Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. #9

Stuart Immonen's cover for Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. #10 presents the five-member team striding together across a dusty, battered landscape — a tall woman with a swept ponytail leads the group, flanked by a dark-haired figure in a jacket, a smaller companion, a blonde, and a hulking figure at the rear. Below them, a collage of torn concert-flyer imagery promises "Healing America," while a circular emblem at the bottom corner features a red-white-and-blue armored figure hunched in the rubble. Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen's 2006 series has always delivered absurdist superhero energy with a sharp visual wit, and this issue's cover — equal parts road-warrior swagger and found-art collage — makes a strong case for picking it up.