Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta #9

Three figures crowd a darkened alleyway bathed in an unsettling magenta light — a hooded woman crouching in red at the foreground, flanked by an older man with glasses and a younger, watchful man behind her — and the unease radiating from Paul Azaceta's cover art feels entirely earned for a story titled "What Lurks Within." Robert Kirkman's supernatural series has always excelled at grounding dread in ordinary faces, and this ninth issue delivers that tension in spades. If you've been following Outcast, this moody Image entry is exactly the kind of chapter the title promises.