Avengers & X-Men: Axis #3

Two massive factions — one led by Magneto, Doctor Doom, Loki, Mystique, Deadpool, and a flame-skulled figure, the other anchored by Iron Man, Thor, the Scarlet Witch, Storm, Vision, and Captain America's shield-bearing ally — face off across a crackling divide on Jim Cheung's sweeping cover for this third chapter of "The Red Supremacy." The sheer density of Marvel's heaviest hitters, rendered with Cheung's sharp linework, makes this 2014 installment of Rick Remender and Leinil Francis Yu's Avengers & X-Men: Axis feel genuinely consequential. If you've been following this crossover event, issue #3 is where the stakes on the cover alone look unmistakably serious.