The Marked #7

This seventh installment of Image's darkly stylish series arrives with a cover that stops you cold: a tattooed young woman in glasses is engulfed by massive, writhing black tentacles against a stark red background, her expression caught somewhere between defiance and peril. The stark black-and-white rendering of the figure against that bold crimson backdrop gives the whole image a striking, woodcut-like intensity that speaks to the series' blend of occult edge and modern attitude. From Hine, Haberlin, and Van Dyke, The Marked #7 makes a strong visual case that 2020's supernatural comics scene had something genuinely unsettling to offer.