Daughters of the Dragon #4

The penultimate stretch of this 2006 Marvel limited series arrives with a striking cover by penciler Khari Evans and inker Jimmy Palmiotti: a masked, golden-haired warrior woman crouches atop a fallen robotic hand, leveling a double-tipped spear with fierce determination, while a teary-eyed red-haired figure looms in the background clutching a white rose. The contrast between the foreground's hard-edged combat readiness and the background's quiet grief gives the image a genuinely compelling emotional pull. Writers Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti, along with artist Khari Evans and colorist Christina Strain, have built this series into one of the more distinctive street-level adventures Marvel offered in 2006.