Secret Wars #6

With two issues left in Jonathan Hickman's ambitious eight-part saga, Secret Wars #6 arrives with an Alex Ross cover that crackles with dread and electricity. A hooded, armored figure stands at the center of the composition, unleashing bolts of lightning as a writhing mass of decayed, zombie-like creatures — tentacled, skeletal, and relentless — closes in from every direction. The image has the kind of painterly intensity Ross is known for, and paired with Esad Ribić and Ive Svorcina's interior work, this penultimate stretch of the series promises the scope and stakes its title demands.