Star Trek #40

The omnipotent Q looms enormous in the background, his stone-faced visage filling the cosmos, as Kirk in his gold command shirt and two crewmates in blue and red are helplessly suspended in his massive, outstretched hands. Tony Shasteen's cover captures the sheer power imbalance at the heart of "The Q Gambit" with striking visual clarity — three Starfleet officers, however capable, utterly dwarfed by an entity who treats the universe as his personal chessboard. Part 6 of this six-part IDW arc promises a conclusion to one of the more ambitious crossover stories in the Kelvin-timeline comics run.