Runaways #18

The cover by Marcos Martín says it all with a single stark warning — "One of these Runaways is about to die" — lending genuine weight to what looks like an otherwise vibrant, energetic image of the young team in motion alongside their dinosaur companion. Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona bring this first-volume arc to a close with "Parental Guidance, Conclusion," and the cover captures the group's scrappy, youthful spirit even as the ominous tagline hangs over them. It's a quietly unsettling piece of cover design that makes this concluding chapter hard to set aside.