Black Lightning: Year One #5

The penultimate chapter of DC's 2009 retelling of Black Lightning's early days delivers a cover that crackles with raw energy — literally. Cully Hamner's art captures two figures locked in a fierce confrontation, arcs of electric-blue lightning surging between them as a crowd of onlookers presses against a chain-link fence in the background, the whole scene grounded in a vivid urban setting complete with graffiti-tagged barriers. It's a tense, street-level moment that frames the series' neighborhood-scale stakes beautifully ahead of its final issue.