Powers #11

Three panel-like portraits of a single figure — rendered in warm amber and shadow — anchor this starkly minimal cover, the vast black space above them lending an almost cinematic weight to the composition. Michael Avon Oeming's cover art traces what appears to be a progression or transformation, the face shifting subtly across each frame against a burning, fiery backdrop. "Psychotic Part Five" promises that Brian Michael Bendis and Oeming's gritty superhero crime series is deep in the thick of something intense, and this 2005 Icon release makes that tension felt before you've even cracked the spine.