The Beauty #14

Issue fourteen of Image Comics' The Beauty arrives with a cover that is equal parts haunting and mesmerizing — a shaven-headed figure, mouth agape in what reads as anguish or transformation, their porcelain-pale skin fractured with dark, web-like cracks against an eerie green glow. The image perfectly captures the series' unsettling premise, where beauty and body horror are inseparably intertwined. If the team of Haun, Hurley, Nachlik, and Rauch has kept you hooked this far into the run, this 2017 installment shows no signs of letting the tension ease.