Pretty Deadly: The Rat #4

Against a muted sage-green sky, a massive serpentine dragon dominates the cover of Pretty Deadly: The Rat #4, its coiling, ink-brushed silhouette filling the frame with quiet menace — while a tiny lone figure perches at its neck, caught mid-disintegration in a burst of scattered fragments. Emma Ríos's cover work is beautifully restrained, using shadow and negative space to create something that feels as much like a woodblock print as a comic cover. Kelly Sue DeConnick, Ríos, Jordie Bellaire, and Clayton Cowles bring their signature mythic intensity to this 2019 Image penultimate chapter.