Ody-C #3

Christian Ward's cover for this 2015 Image series delivers a striking cosmic standoff: a white-haired warrior in teal armor stands her ground on a rocky outcropping, weapon in hand, while an enormous cyclopean creature — all dark mass, single glowing eye, and grasping claws — looms ominously behind her against a swirling galaxy of violet, pink, and electric blue. Matt Fraction and Ward's gender-flipped mythic odyssey through the stars already feels like one of the most visually ambitious books on the shelf in 2015. If you're drawn to space-opera reimaginings rendered in pure psychedelic color, issue three of Ody-C is hard to walk past.