NYX #8

The cover of NYX #8 brings an electric charge of tension, with Sara Pichelli's art depicting two figures — a smirking young man in an X-Men uniform with claws extended and a dark-haired woman with striking eye makeup — pressed cheek to cheek against a backdrop of crackling green lightning. That juxtaposition of his cocky grin and her cool, guarded expression suggests a relationship far more complicated than simple alliance. Writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, along with artist Francesco Mortarino and colorist Raúl Angulo, keep this corner of the Marvel Universe feeling urgent and full of charged possibilities.