Ultimate Comics X-Men #27

Part four of "Natural Resources" arrives with a cover by Dave Johnson that's hard to look away from — four mutants stride forward in stark black-and-white against a bold red background, each with a red X taped across their mouth in a striking image of enforced silence. The restrained palette and that provocative visual statement give this issue of Brian Wood's run a cool, protest-poster quality that sets it apart from a typical superhero cover. With Mahmud Asrar on interior art and colors by Jordie Bellaire, this chapter of Ultimate Comics X-Men promises the same sharp craft that's defined the arc throughout 2013.