Southern Cross #7

The cover of Southern Cross #7 says everything with a single, unsettling close-up: a pale face with piercing, otherworldly blue eyes stares out from beneath a dark hood, criss-crossed by glowing red geometric lines that feel less like a design and more like a trap closing in. Becky Cloonan's cover art — rendered in deep, moody purples and blacks with Lee Loughridge's striking color work amplifying the dread — makes this sci-fi horror series from Image feel as atmospheric as ever. If you've been following Alex's increasingly harrowing journey aboard the Southern Cross, issue #7 promises the tension hasn't let up one bit.