Scarlet #6

Alex Maleev's cover for this 2013 Icon title is quietly striking: Scarlet's red-haired silhouette is filled entirely by a crowd of protesters clutching hand-lettered signs — "Are U One of Them?", "No More", "End Fascism", "Stop" — their faces ranging from defiant to desperate. It's a clever visual argument about a movement that has grown larger than any single person, and it sets a charged, politically urgent tone for Brian Michael Bendis and Maleev's ongoing collaboration. Fans of morally complex, street-level storytelling will find this issue's presentation hard to pass up.