Strange Academy #13

Humberto Ramos delivers a mesmerizing and unsettling cover for Strange Academy #13, depicting a young woman in a school uniform with her eyes serenely closed while a mass of green serpents coils around her neck, chest, and radiates outward through her hair like a living crown. Tally-mark scratches cover the crumbling wall behind her, hinting at something counted — or endured — and scattered flowers add a quietly ominous contrast to the snakes pressing in from every side. With Skottie Young writing and Edgar Delgado's vivid colors giving those serpents an almost jewel-like sheen, this 2022 issue promises the kind of dark, imaginative tension that makes Strange Academy such a compelling corner of the Marvel universe.