Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier #9

This striking Michael Del Mundo cover says everything about where Bucky Barnes finds himself in issue #9 — literally crushed beneath a massive, cracked planetary sphere while a horned, staff-wielding Loki sits perched smugly atop it, staff in hand. The image is a striking visual metaphor for the "Whole Planet Takeover" story title, with Bucky still gripping his weapon even as debris rains down around him. Aleš Kot and the triple-threat talents of Marco Rudy make this 2015 series one of Marvel's more visually adventurous outings, and this issue looks like it raises the cosmic stakes considerably.