Thor #8

The story title alone — "The Woman Beneath the Mask" — tells you this is a charged moment in Jason Aaron's acclaimed run, and Russell Dauterman's cover delivers on that promise with quiet intensity. Rendered in deep purples and burnished gold, a figure in Asgardian armor raises both hands to lift the horned Thor helmet away, long blonde hair spilling free as a radiant light blazes from behind the title. It's an intimate, almost reverent image — Matthew Wilson's colors lending it a warmth that makes this 2015 issue feel genuinely momentous.