Sentinels #5

The massive, glowing-eyed head of a Sentinel dominates this cover, its outstretched arms framing the composition as a team of five blue-and-pink-suited figures stands triumphantly atop it — an explosion and a brilliant planetary backdrop blazing behind them. It's a striking image that balances the mechanical menace of Marvel's most notorious mutant-hunters against the defiant energy of the people perched above them. Writer Alex Paknadel and artist Justin Mason, with colors by Federico Blee, bring real visual ambition to "Factory Settings," and issue #5 looks like a genuinely satisfying payoff to whatever has been building in this series.