Undiscovered Country #9

Scott Snyder and Charles Soule's boundary-pushing Image series reaches its ninth chapter with a cover that commands immediate attention: a massive, pod-like organic vessel split open against a blazing red sky, its interior revealing intricate bio-mechanical machinery and a gaunt, glowing-eyed figure draped in a tattered American flag. Giuseppe Camuncoli's cover art — both penciled and inked by him — radiates an unsettling grandeur, with streaks of light and energy rippling outward from the ruptured shell in every direction. If this series has been probing the mysteries of a sealed-off United States, issue #9 makes clear that whatever lies within may be far stranger and more dangerous than anyone imagined.