Age of Apocalypse #5

Spinning out of Uncanny X-Force, this 2012 Marvel series plunges readers back into one of mutantkind's most unforgiving realities. Carlo Barberi's cover delivers a striking image of a heavily armed, red-haired woman striding forward through a wall of fire, pistol in one hand and a rocket launcher slung over her shoulder, her expression cool and utterly unshaken. With David Lapham writing and Davide Gianfelice on art, issue #5 promises the kind of hard-edged tension that makes this dystopian corner of the Marvel universe so compelling.