Paradise X #11

Paradise X #11 brings the penultimate chapter of Marvel's sweeping alternate-universe epic to a quietly intense close. Alex Ross's painted cover gathers an aged, white-haired woman in a black-and-white costume wielding a hammer, an older bald man with a solemn expression, a rocky-skinned figure unmistakably recalling the Thing, a glowing energy-form, a masked figure with an eye motif, and a kneeling child amid churned earth — all rendered with Ross's signature painterly gravitas. With writing by Ross and Krueger and interior art by Braithwaite and Reinhold, this 2003 issue promises the weighty, myth-scaled storytelling that has defined the entire Paradise X saga.