The Swamp Thing #13

Two luminous, yellow-green hands reach toward each other across a web of crackling, vine-like energy, with the mossy face of Swamp Thing caught in the space between them — it's a hauntingly beautiful image that suggests something cosmic and unsettling is closing in. Mike Perkins and colorist Mike Spicer bathe the entire cover in an electric green palette that feels both organic and otherworldly, perfectly suited to the Green's elemental power. The penultimate stretch of The Swamp Thing: Season Two is drawing near, and issue #13 — "Machination" — promises the tension that Ram V's run has been quietly, masterfully building.