The Swamp Thing #14

Issue 14 of 16 in this DC series brings Swamp Thing to a near-climactic moment, with Mike Perkins and Mike Spicer's cover art depicting the plant elemental looming out of deep shadow, cradling a luminous, pulsing sphere of green energy in his outstretched hands. The eerie glow illuminates his mossy, textured form from below, giving the image a sense of immense, barely contained power. Ram V's "The Alien Idea" promises that as this 16-part saga heads toward its conclusion, the stakes — and the strangeness — are only growing.