Age of Ultron #1

A golden, red-eyed Ultron looms over a battlefield strewn with fallen heroes — the Hulk, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Captain America among the defeated figures piled beneath him — while a lone human silhouette stands defiantly at his back against a backdrop of ruined cityscape and cascading binary code. It's a striking opening image for this 2013 Marvel event, with Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary delivering a cover that immediately conveys the scale of Ultron's apparent dominance. Brian Michael Bendis kicks off "Age of Ultron Book One" here, and the cover alone makes a compelling case that the situation for Earth's heroes is dire from the very first page.