Blackest Night: Superman #1

The Blackest Night crossover reaches Smallville in this first issue of three, written by James Robinson with art by Eddy Barrows. The cover — inked by Barrows himself — is genuinely unsettling: a decayed, zombified figure in a Superman costume looms over the gravestone of Jonathan Kent, shovel in hand beneath a stormy purple sky, wearing a Black Lantern symbol where the familiar shield should be. It's a deeply personal image of corruption and dread, setting a somber, eerie tone for "A Sleepy Little Town.