Nightcrawler #4

The concluding chapter of Marvel's 2002 Icons miniseries arrives with a haunting close-up of Nightcrawler — his yellow eyes burning with intensity beneath a full moon, swirling mist curling around him against a star-filled sky. Massimiliano Frezzato's painted cover work gives Kurt Wagner a brooding, almost otherworldly gravity that feels perfectly suited to this final installment of "Passion Play." With Kipiniak, Smith, and Morales bringing the story home, this fourth issue promises a satisfying payoff to one of the more introspective solo outings the blue mutant swashbuckler has received.