Eternals #2

Esad Ribić's cover for this 2021 Marvel series says everything about the stakes: a grinning, colossal Thanos looms over a debris-strewn void while a lone Eternal — clad in red and teal, fists clenched — rises defiantly toward him, dwarfed but unbowed. The scale and tension Ribić captures here, deepened by Matthew Wilson's amber and shadow palette, make for one of the most visually arresting covers of the year. Kieron Gillen's "Only Death Is Eternal, Part 2" promises a story that earns every bit of that confrontational image.