The Me You Love in the Dark #5

The penultimate issue of Skottie Young and Jorge Corona's unsettling Image series arrives with one of its most striking covers yet — a sprawling mass of grotesque creatures fills the foreground, their teal-glowing eyes and jagged teeth crowding the frame, while a house engulfed in fire blazes against a blood-red sky in the distance. Jorge Corona's linework gives these writhing, multi-eyed forms a simultaneously organic and mechanical quality, brought to vivid, eerie life by Jean-François Beaulieu's moody palette of deep shadows and luminous teals. If this 2021 series has been building toward something overwhelming and beautiful-terrible, this cover promises that moment may have arrived.