Penance: Relentless #4

Spinning out of Marvel's Civil War, this penultimate chapter of the five-issue limited series delivers a cover drenched in winter dread. Paul Gulacy's artwork looms a massive, hooded and masked figure over a snow-blanketed castle, while a small, armored Penance stands alone at the gates below — the scale between them making the odds feel genuinely daunting. It's a striking image that captures the brooding, isolated tone Jenkins and Gulacy brought to this 2008 series.