Adventures of Superman #631

From the creative team of Greg Rucka and Matthew Clark, Adventures of Superman #631 arrives in October 2004 as part five of the "Battery" arc. Gene Ha's cover is a striking, ground-level portrait of a long-haired woman in a tan vest stumbling through a rubble-strewn street, graffiti reading "Out of Umec" scrawled on the crumbling wall behind her — the subtitle "Casualty of War" making the stakes quietly devastating. It's a rare Superman title that puts a vulnerable human figure front and center, and that restraint makes it all the more compelling.