Once & Future #3

Dan Mora's striking cover for Once & Future #3 splits the frame between a battered, bespectacled young man staring down with grim determination and a gleaming sword blade that reveals a cathedral interior swarming with grotesque undead warriors in dark armor. The composition is a clever visual argument — ordinary humanity on one side, ancient supernatural horror on the other, with only the blade standing between them. Kieron Gillen, Mora, and colorist Tamra Bonvillain are crafting one of BOOM! Studios' most atmospheric modern series, and this 2019 issue makes clear that the mythological terror is very much escalating.