Black Adam: The Dark Age #5

Penultimate issue of this six-part DC series spinning out of 52 and Countdown, and Doug Mahnke's cover makes the stakes immediately clear: Black Adam, crackling lightning blazing across a stormy sky behind him, hoists a black-clad armored soldier aloft with one powerful hand while a pile of fallen, glowing-eyed figures lies defeated at his feet. It's a striking image of raw, unstoppable force that captures exactly the kind of brutal determination Peter J. Tomasi and Mahnke have been building toward across "The Dark Age.