Paradise X #9

The penultimate chapter of Marvel's ambitious Paradise X saga arrives with a cover that commands attention — a red-and-gold armored Iron Man looms in the foreground alongside a skull-faced, red-eyed figure in a dark suit, while a mechanical humanoid stands watch in the background and a prone figure lies at their feet, with a ghostly holographic apple hovering ominously in the mix. Alex Ross's painted cover work gives the whole composition a haunting, painterly weight that feels genuinely cinematic. With Krueger and Braithwaite steering the interior alongside Ross, issue #9 is a compelling piece of one of Marvel's most ambitious alternate-universe epics.