Once & Future #26

Dan Mora's cover for issue #26 delivers a striking split-image portrait of Duncan — glasses, red beard, sword slung over his shoulder — his human half fracturing like a broken mirror to reveal a grotesque, fang-filled monster beneath, all set against a sharp diagonal of burning red. It's a visually arresting way to frame the tension at the heart of Kieron Gillen's Arthurian mythology series, with Tamra Bonvillain's deep reds and blacks giving the whole image a brooding, unsettling weight. Twenty-six issues in, Once & Future continues to find fresh and compelling ways to explore what lurks beneath the surface of its characters.