Action Comics #854

Part three of "3-2-1 Action!" arrives as a Countdown tie-in, and Brad Walker and John Livesay's cover sets the stakes immediately: Superman is pinned against the hide of a colossal green monster, straining with everything he has, while a hapless redhead dangles helplessly inside the creature's enormous, snapping jaws — pleading, "Uhh, Superman? Little help here?" Kurt Busiek's run on this title has consistently found inventive ways to test the Man of Steel, and this installment looks no different. It's a vivid, viscerally fun image that captures the juggling act of heroism — save the world and the person about to be swallowed whole.