The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #5

The fifth chapter of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's Hotel Oblivion arc delivers a cover bursting with kinetic energy — a dark, caped figure looms overhead with fists raised while the assembled members of the Umbrella Academy clash in a swirling mass of color and chaos below, with a robot-helmeted figure, a sword-wielding red-suited fighter, and several others caught mid-battle amid an explosion of light and strange, tentacled shapes. Bá's linework crackles with momentum, making the whole composition feel like a collision of forces barely contained on the page. If you've been following this series through Dark Horse, issue #5 makes it abundantly clear the stakes — and the action — are only escalating.