Origins #5

The penultimate chapter of Chapman, Rebelka, and Delpeche's post-apocalyptic series arrives with a cover that earns a long, quiet stare: two figures — one cloaked in blue, one in a pale pink coat — stand before a massive, technologically embedded archway carved into dark rock, its surface threaded with glowing blue nodes, while a crowd of armored figures masses in the foreground below them. Rebelka's painted artwork gives the scene a genuine sense of awe, the scale of the structure dwarfing the characters and suggesting both discovery and confrontation at the threshold of something enormous. With only one issue left after this, Origins #5 feels like exactly the kind of penultimate moment where everything converges.