Precious Metal #4

Issue four of this Image series set in the world of Little Bird arrives with a genuinely striking cover: a towering, biomechanically grotesque figure — its head a pulsing, fungal mass of reds and greens, its body draped in a dark coat and encrusted with layered organic-mechanical detail — stands with blade in hand against a vast, star-scattered void, looming over a field of pale, scattered blocks below. Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram, and Matt Hollingsworth bring an atmosphere of dread and strange grandeur that feels unlike almost anything else on shelves in 2024. If you've been following this series, this penultimate chapter's cover alone makes a compelling case to keep going.