Avengers: The Initiative #11

The fourth and final chapter of "Killed in Action" arrives with a cover by Steve Uy that stops you cold — a battered, shirtless figure with a grotesquely transformed arm stands amid roaring flames and crackling energy, his clothes soaked in blood, while fallen bodies lie scattered at his feet. It's a striking image of devastation that sets a genuinely ominous tone for this climax, written by Dan Slott and Christos N. Gage with interior art by Stefano Caselli and colors by Daniele Rudoni. If this 2008 series has been building toward a "worst case scenario," this cover makes clear it has arrived.