Shutter #26

Shutter #26 brings Joe Keatinge and Leila del Duca's wild adventure series to a charged penultimate moment, with del Duca's cover placing protagonist Kate Kristopher at the center of a swirling, tentacle-filled vortex of blue energy. She faces down a strange clock-bearing creature, gun raised and expression fierce, as a burst of light erupts between them — the kind of image that makes it clear the stakes in "Our Universe" are anything but small. Owen Gieni's cool blue palette gives the whole scene an otherworldly intensity that's hard to look away from.