Avengers / Invaders #9

Penultimate-arc tension radiates from Alex Ross's painted cover for issue nine of this twelve-part Marvel/Dynamite co-production, where Captain America, Thor, and their assembled allies charge through a New York City draped in Nazi flags beneath a colossal, ominous Red Skull looming in the smoke-filled sky. The stakes feel enormous as the heroes press forward against that oppressive crimson backdrop, flames curling at the edges of the cityscape. With writers Ross and Jim Krueger steering "Yesterday Gambit" and Sadowski and Berkenkotter handling interior art, this chapter of the Avengers/Invaders saga promises the kind of wartime drama that makes this crossover series so compelling.