The Authority #4

The fourth and final chapter of "The Circle" arrives with a cover that puts menace front and center — a grinning, elaborately helmeted warlord figure filling nearly the entire frame, his cold eyes and wispy beard radiating gleeful malevolence. Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary's cover work is cinematic in scale, the ornate red-and-gold headgear lending the villain an almost imperial gravity that feels genuinely unsettling. Warren Ellis, Hitch, Neary, and Laura DePuy close out this opening arc of The Authority with a promise that the threat looming over the team is anything but ordinary.