Ragnarök #3

Walter Simonson's Ragnarök continues with issue #3, "The Forest of the Dead," and this cover makes an immediate impression: a massive, skull-faced armored giant dominates the frame, glowing orange eyes burning with menace as a tremendous war-hammer crackles with lightning in his grip, a forest of spears bristling ominously across the stormy horizon behind him. Laura Martin's coloring gives the brooding grey sky and the creature's earth-toned armor a grim, mythic weight that feels perfectly suited to a tale rooted in Norse apocalypse. Simonson — writing, drawing, and inking every page — brings the full force of his craft to this IDW series, and a cover this imposing promises dark adventures within.