Thunderbolts #9

This issue of Jim Zub and Jon Malin's Thunderbolts takes a quieter, more intimate turn with a cover that places two armored figures — one in sleek mechanical plating, the other with striking pink hair and a matching headset — nearly face to face against a stormy, light-streaked sky, white feathers drifting around them. It's a surprisingly tender image for a team book, suggesting complicated emotional stakes beneath all that superhero hardware. Matt Yackey's cool blue palette gives the whole scene a bittersweet, charged atmosphere that makes "Stray Signals" feel like more than just a chapter title.