Avengers: Endless Wartime #[nn]

Three figures emerge from a snow-swept darkness on Mike McKone's striking monochromatic cover — Thor, Captain America (star-and-chest-armor front and center), and Iron Man — rendered in sepia tones with only the Avengers logo's bloodred spatters breaking the restrained palette. It's a fitting visual introduction to this original graphic novel from writer Warren Ellis and artist Mike McKone, whose clean linework gives the assembled heroes a quiet, battle-worn gravity. If you're drawn to Avengers stories with a more measured, thoughtful mood, Endless Wartime presents itself as exactly that kind of read.