The Wicked + The Divine #40

Issue 40 of The Wicked + The Divine arrives with one of the series' most quietly arresting covers: a close-up portrait of a young, short-haired figure bathed in cool neon blues and warm magentas, their expression calm yet faintly unsettling — and the series title itself rendered in mirror-reversed text across the lower half, as if the world has been flipped. Jamie McKelvie's linework is precise and intimate, while Matthew Wilson and Dee Cunniffe's color work transforms the piece into something that feels equal parts stage light and surveillance. Titled "Total Eclipse — For a Certain Value of 'Okay,'" this 2018 chapter from Kieron Gillen, McKelvie, and Clayton Cowles promises the kind of emotionally charged, visually inventive storytelling that has made this series so compelling.