The Beauty #9

The Beauty continues its unsettling exploration of a world where a sexually transmitted disease makes its hosts physically perfect — and this ninth issue delivers a cover that captures that tension with haunting beauty. Jeremy Haun's cover art fills the frame with a woman's face in profile, mouth open in an anguished cry, her skin fractured with a porcelain-like craquelure pattern as her hair streams dramatically behind her against a luminous violet and neon-pink background. It's a striking image that perfectly encapsulates the series' central dread — that perfection itself can be a kind of destruction.