Once & Future #6

Dan Mora's cover for issue #6 pulls no punches: a massive, skull-faced undead knight in dark horned armor dominates the composition, its glowing orange eyes fixed forward as a young man in glasses desperately grips a large medieval sword in the upper left corner. The contrast between that ordinary-looking figure and the towering, nightmarish warrior makes for a genuinely unsettling image, with Tamra Bonvillain's coloring lending the darkness a rich, oppressive weight. Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora's Arthurian horror series continues to deliver, and this cover alone signals that the mythology is getting darker and more dangerous by the issue.