Tony Stark: Iron Man #5

A casually seated Tony Stark dominates the foreground, phone in hand and radiating cool confidence, while a massive, battle-worn Iron Man armor looms behind him like a shadow given form — its red eyes glowing and chest repulsor blazing amid a storm of scattered debris. The stark monochromatic palette, punctuated by that single arc-reactor glow, gives Alexander Lozano's cover a striking, almost painterly tension between the man and the machine. Dan Slott's 2018 series continues to explore the duality at the heart of Marvel's armored Avenger, and this fifth issue makes a compelling visual argument for why Tony Stark is just as formidable out of the suit as in it.