The Woods #12

The cover of The Woods #12 hits with an almost spiritual intensity — a glowing, skeletal figure levitates arms-wide above a massive stone structure, its body rendered in vivid crimson against a luminous burst of white light, while a crowd of onlookers below reaches upward in awe or desperation. Michael Dialynas's composition draws the eye straight up that vertical axis, with broken chains drifting through a haunting green atmosphere that makes the whole scene feel both alien and momentous. James Tynion IV's series continues to push its stranded-students-on-a-strange-world premise into genuinely unsettling territory, and Josan Gonzalez's color work here is nothing short of mesmerizing.