Astro City #46

Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson, and Alex Ross's long-running Vertigo series delivers another striking chapter with "The Day the Music Died." Alex Ross's cover pulls you in immediately — a mass of writhing black tentacles engulfs multiple figures, including a green-haired, purple-skinned character in a white coat, a caped hero in red, and at least one other struggling figure caught in the creature's grip, with winged forms and glowing neon-green energy adding to the chaos. It's a vivid, unsettling image that captures Astro City's signature blend of human vulnerability and superhuman spectacle.