Uncanny X-Men #16

Part of the 2017 "Inhumans vs. X-Men" crossover event, this issue of Uncanny X-Men delivers a striking cover by Ken Lashley that pits two imposing figures — a fierce, flame-crowned red-haired woman and a helmeted, cold-eyed adversary in purple — looming over a glowing golden labyrinth where a lone, tiny figure stands stranded at its center. The tension radiating from those two enormous faces, eyes locked and crackling with energy, frames the maze below as something genuinely ominous. Writer Cullen Bunn and artist Edgar Salazar bring this charged chapter to life, with colors by Nolan Woodard that bathe the whole composition in vivid, molten heat.