Supreme Power #3

Part three of four in this Marvel MAX series finds the stakes at their most unsettling, as Sebastián Fiumara's cover makes hauntingly clear: a massive, blood-speckled hand clutches a glowing multifaceted gem whose colored panels reflect the faces of multiple characters, their expressions ranging from desperate to haunted. It's a striking image that suggests lives literally held in the balance, rendered with an almost tactile intensity. Kyle Higgins and Manuel Garcia bring their mature-readers vision of Supreme Power to a penultimate chapter that promises no easy answers.