No Mercy #7

The cover of this Image Comics series puts a striking, close-cropped portrait front and center — a young man in a chain-mail coif and ornate armored breastplate, his expression calm but quietly resolute against a bold radiating red-and-green sunburst background. The tally-mark "7" worked into the title design is a neat touch that reminds you this series has been building something deliberate issue by issue. With Alex de Campi, Carla Speed McNeil, and Jenn Manley Lee at the helm, No Mercy continues to be one of Image's more thoughtfully crafted ongoing series of 2016.