The Uncanny X-Men #461

The cover of Uncanny X-Men #461 makes one thing immediately clear: something grotesque and gleeful is front and center. Frank Cho's cover art presents a deeply unsettling figure — a pale, heavily built body studded with bolts and a coiled cord, topped by a leering, green-skinned face with glowing yellow eyes, a drooling lashing tongue, and a crown of mechanical tubes and cables snaking upward. With Chris Claremont writing and Tom Raney on interior art, "Mojo Rising!" promises a story that leans hard into the bizarre corner of the X-Men universe — and this 2005 cover sets that tone with gleefully creepy confidence.