Action Comics: Futures End #1

Part of DC's 2014 New 52: Futures End event, this one-shot finds Superman in a harrowing state — the cover by Lee Weeks presents a battered, deteriorating Man of Steel straining forward against a backdrop of a burning, flame-scorched cityscape, his suit and form dissolving as if reality itself is failing him. It's a striking, unsettling image that raises immediate questions about what grim future awaits the Last Son of Krypton. Writer Sholly Fisch and artist Pascal Alixe bring the story "Crossroads" to life inside, promising a tale as intense as the cover suggests.