Scarlet #5

The White House looms ghostlike against a field of deep red on Alex Maleev's striking cover for Scarlet #5 — a crosshair-like grid of spray-painted lines framing the building with unmistakable intent. Brian Michael Bendis and Maleev's Jinxworld series has clearly set its sights at the highest levels of American power, and this image makes that tension visceral without saying a word. A bold, unsettling entry in one of 2019's most politically charged mature-readers titles.