Uncanny X-Men #9

Part of Marvel's 2016 X-Men: Apocalypse Wars crossover, this issue of Uncanny X-Men announces its stakes with a genuinely unsettling cover by Greg Land — a massive armored figure looms in the foreground, its chest viewport revealing a flaming, skull-faced visage with blazing white eyes, bathed in an inferno of orange and red. The design is all menace: heavy mechanical coils and angular plating frame that ghastly, burning face at the center. Cullen Bunn scripts with Ken Lashley on interior art and Nolan Woodard on colors, a creative team well-suited to delivering the high-tension drama this cover promises.