NYX: No Way Home #3

Marjorie Liu's NYX: No Way Home reaches its midpoint with this quietly unsettling third issue, featuring a cover by Alina Urusov that places a young man in a gray shirt at the center of a swirling, dreamlike haze of reds, yellows, and greens — a ghostly face looming large in the abstract background behind him. The painted style gives the whole image a haunted, introspective mood that feels perfectly suited to this street-level Marvel series. With interior art from Kalman Andrasofszky, Sara Pichelli, and Ramón Pérez, this 2008 miniseries continues to bring real artistic ambition to its story of young mutants navigating a world that offers them no easy way home.