Amazing Spider-Man #20

This Clone Conspiracy tie-in delivers one of the more unsettling covers of 2016: Alex Ross paints a smirking, broad-shouldered figure in tinted glasses gripping a battered, cracked Spider-Man mask in his mechanical claws — the damaged red-and-black costume visible beneath him radiating a sense of hard-won dominance. With Dan Slott and Christos Gage scripting alongside artist Giuseppe Camuncoli, "Spider-Man's Superior" promises the kind of tense, layered storytelling that makes this era of the title so compelling. If that cover image doesn't leave you curious about what's left of Spider-Man, nothing will.