No Mercy #3

Two young people with brown hair and striking blue eyes are locked in an unsettling embrace against a roaring wall of fire — one reaching out to cup the other's face — creating an image that is tender and deeply ominous at the same time. Carla Speed McNeil's cover linework, warmed by Jenn Manley Lee's palette of yellows, oranges, and encroaching ash-grey, gives the scene an almost intimate quality that makes the surrounding inferno feel all the more alarming. The third issue of Alex de Campi and Carla Speed McNeil's No Mercy from Image's 2015 run promises the kind of human drama that burns slowly and then all at once.