Saga #46

Fiona Staples' unsettling cover for Saga Chapter Forty-Six arranges a collection of bloodstained surgical and medical instruments — a bone saw, scalpel, forceps, syringe filled with glowing green liquid, and a small futuristic device among them — against a stark, pale background, the scattered drops of blood hinting at something urgent and visceral ahead. It's a quietly harrowing image that trusts the reader's imagination far more than a conventional action pose would. Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples continue to prove, in this 2017 Image Comics chapter, that Saga operates on a level all its own.