Sub-Mariner: The Depths #4

Peter Milligan's psychological deep-sea thriller reaches its penultimate chapter in this Marvel Knights series, with Esad Ribić's painted cover setting an unmistakably tense mood. A pale, imperious Namor looms behind a shirtless, bearded man whose wrists appear bound — the power dynamic between the two figures radiating quiet menace against a murky, mechanical underwater backdrop. Ribić's moody, almost painterly linework makes this fourth-of-five issue feel less like a superhero book and more like a genuinely unsettling thriller from the deep.