Scarlet #9

Scarlet returns with issue #9, and Alex Maleev's cover announces her comeback with striking visual economy — a woman's silhouette used as a bullet-riddled shooting range target, a red "X" scrawled defiantly across the bullseye. It's a quietly unsettling image that captures the series' tension between vulnerability and resolve without saying a single word. With Bendis and Maleev reunited on this Icon title, ComicBookResources called it "the best work from Bendis in years, and maybe the best work from Maleev ever" — and this 2016 chapter picks up right where that momentum left off.