Once & Future #25

Dan Mora's cover for issue #25 is a striking close-up of a hooded, armored figure gripping a nocked arrow against a crimson sky — a shard of what appears to be a broken mirror or reflective surface catches the face of a red-haired, bearded man within the figure's grasp. Kieron Gillen and Mora's Arthurian series reaches its 25th chapter with "The Wasteland," and the mood here is unmistakably tense, the imagery of fragmented reflection suggesting identity and myth on the verge of shattering. Tamra Bonvillain's deep, blood-red atmosphere ties the whole composition together into something genuinely unsettling.