Once & Future #9

Dan Mora's cover for issue #9 delivers an immediately arresting image: a cracked, glowing helmet — clutched in a monstrous claw, leaking fiery orange fractures — looms in the foreground while two skeletal skulls leer from the shadows behind it. The deep teal darkness and Tamra Bonvillain's vivid crimson-and-cyan palette give the whole composition a genuinely unsettling weight that feels equal parts Arthurian myth and modern horror. Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora's BOOM! Studios series clearly isn't slowing down as it heads into its ninth chapter.