The Beauty #15

Issue fifteen of Image's The Beauty delivers a haunting, elegantly composed cover: a red-haired woman in a fur-trimmed winter coat stands among pale birch trees, her face tilted skyward, mouth open, dark cracking marks spreading across her skin in an image that perfectly captures the series' unsettling blend of beauty and dread. The cool purples and whites of the wintry palette give the whole scene an eerie stillness that feels both gorgeous and deeply wrong. Haun, Hurley, Nachlik, and Rauch continue to make this one of Image's most visually distinctive series in 2017.