The Wicked + The Divine #36

A striking close-up portrait fills this 2018 Image Comics cover, depicting a figure whose face is adorned with intricate green vine-like markings and whose eyes glow with an unsettling reddish-amber light — divine power made visceral and strange. A beaded necklace of red and green accents grounds the image in something earthy even as the supernatural radiates from every detail. Jamie McKelvie's cover work is beautifully composed, and with Kieron Gillen's story titled "Monster — The Confession of Valentine Campbell," this issue of The Wicked + The Divine promises something intimate and charged at the heart of the series.