The Wicked + The Divine #24

Issue #24 of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine centers on a striking figure — a self-possessed woman with silver hair, bold gold chains, a skull pendant, and a floral jacket worn with effortless cool, posed against an unsettling backdrop of tangled, serpentine forms that seem to writhe and knot behind the series title. Matt Wilson's magenta-and-teal palette gives the whole composition a charged, otherworldly energy that feels both glamorous and quietly ominous. If you've been following this series through 2016, "Once Again We Return Tempting Fate" promises exactly the kind of stylish tension that makes WicDiv so hard to put down.