Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1

Amanda Conner's cover for this 2012 DC mature-readers series opener is a striking visual tapestry — a close-up profile of Silk Spectre II dominates the composition, her blue-and-gold costume framing a cascade of smaller vignettes that include the glamorous original Silk Spectre in her yellow costume, a masked figure, and a young woman's upturned face gazing toward a delicate snow globe. The layered imagery suggests a story steeped in generational history and the weight of inherited legacy. Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner make for a genuinely exciting creative pairing, and "Mean Goodbye" promises to dig into the world of the Watchmen universe from a fresh, character-driven angle.