Amazing Spider-Man #14

The cover by Alex Ross sets an urgent, visceral tone: a massive, technologically-augmented Regent seizes a limp Spider-Man by the wrist high above a New York City canyon of skyscrapers, while a gold-and-red Iron Man fires a repulsor blast directly into the villain's midsection — a burst of crimson energy that suggests the fight is very much still on. Dan Slott and Christos Gage's "Power Play Part 3: Avengers Assembled" puts two of Marvel's heaviest hitters against a single overwhelming threat, and Camuncoli, Cam Smith, and Marte Gracia bring the interior intensity to match. If you've been following this arc's escalating stakes, issue #14 looks like exactly the payoff you've been waiting for.