Scarlet #3

Alex Maleev's cover for this Jinxworld series pulls no punches — a close-up of a woman's red-smeared lips and clenched teeth dominates the image, while a hand holds a spent bullet casing directly beneath her mouth, the whole composition drenched in shades of crimson and grit. It's the kind of unsettling, painterly imagery that makes Scarlet stand out as one of the more viscerally striking mature-readers titles of 2018. Bendis and Maleev bring that same raw, street-level intensity here that earned the series high praise from critics.