Amazing Spider-Man #9

Spider-Man lunges toward the viewer with a high-tech mechanical claw device on his wrist, his masked face filling the center of Alex Ross's beautifully painted cover — while behind him, European landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, and Stonehenge hint at a globe-trotting adventure. Flanking him are a masked female hero with batons, a hooded green-energy-wielding villain, and a shadowy figure with a glowing eye, teasing a story with serious international scope. Dan Slott and Giuseppe Camuncoli kick off "Scorpio Rising" right here, and this issue promises exactly the kind of ambitious, world-spanning Spider-Man story the cover is selling.