The New 52: Futures End #16

The cover of this October 2014 installment of DC's weekly series presents a striking image: a sleek, silver-armored female figure — unmistakably a cybernetic being — spreads her arms wide as vivid pink tendrils of organic or technological energy radiate outward from her form, while a crowd of skull-faced robotic drones masses at her feet against a glowing, circuit-board-green backdrop. Ryan Sook's cover work gives the scene an unsettling grandeur, blending cold machine aesthetics with something disturbingly alive. With Azzarello, Lemire, Jurgens, and Giffen collaborating on the script and Jesús Merino on interior art, this issue keeps DC's ambitious look at a dystopian future running at full momentum.