Savage Dragon #260

Issue #260 of Erik Larsen's long-running Image series brings a genuinely menacing new threat to Malcolm Dragon's world — the cover blares "This is the mad menace called Torment!" as a grotesque, armored villain clutches a woman in his grasp high above a city skyline while Malcolm himself plunges into the fray from above. The cover copy makes the stakes bracingly personal: Torment's sights are set not just on Malcolm, but on destroying his wife. Larsen's kinetic linework keeps the action churning across every inch of the composition, and colorists Nikos Koutsis and Mike Toris give the whole scene a vivid, punchy energy that's hard to look away from.