Venom Annual #1

This 2018 Marvel annual brings together an impressive lineup of talent — Donny Cates, David Michelinie, Ron Lim, James Stokoe, and more — for a collection of symbiotic storytelling all under one cover. That cover itself is a striking composition: a battered, ordinary-looking man crouches in the foreground, dollar bills and loose change scattering around him, while a massive, grinning Venom looms over him from above, inky black tendrils reaching out in every direction. It's a tense, beautifully rendered image that captures the raw power imbalance between the alien symbiote and the vulnerable human caught in his shadow.