The Wild Storm #23

With only one issue left in Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt's ambitious 24-part saga, issue #23 of The Wild Storm arrives with a cover that crackles with urgency. Jon Davis-Hunt's artwork places three figures — a woman with energy arcing around her fists, a large armed man, and a child clutching a glowing orb — rushing up a debris-strewn staircase at the Central Park South subway station, while a silver-haired figure above them crackles with purple energy amid an explosion of rubble. Steve Buccellato's warm, fiery palette gives the chaos a visceral heat, making this penultimate chapter feel like everything is finally, inescapably converging.