Snotgirl #4

Leslie Hung's cover for Snotgirl #4 presents a striking overhead view of two young women lying side by side against a vivid red backdrop — one with dark hair and closed, blank-white eyes, the other with voluminous flowing green hair and striking red lips, their hands nearly touching in an image that feels at once intimate and deeply unsettling. The contrast between the two figures, and the ambiguity of the dark-haired woman's vacant gaze, makes this one of the more quietly arresting covers of 2016. Bryan Lee O'Malley and Hung's series continues to blend fashion-world aesthetics with something far more emotionally complicated, and "Now Everything's Embarrassing" promises to deliver more of that sharp, uneasy tension.