Venom #4

Venom looms large and menacing on this striking 2018 Marvel collection, the black-and-white symbiote bearing down with teeth bared amid swirling dark tendrils and fiery red-orange chaos at his back. Ryan Stegman's cover work is intense and visceral, capturing the raw, overwhelming power of the character in full force. Subtitled The Nativity, this volume collects work by Costa, Garron, Bagley, and Hanna — a creative team that clearly had big, dark ambitions for everyone's favorite lethal protector.