Cable & Deadpool #32

Cable and Deadpool face off back-to-back on Amanda Conner's cover, the silver-haired Cable gripping a heavy assault rifle while Deadpool — suited up in his red-and-black gear with a katana peeking over his shoulder — extends a warning arm outward, the tension between the two palpable even before you crack the spine. This issue ties directly into Marvel's Civil War event, and with Fabian Nicieza writing and Staz Johnson on interior art, the creative team is more than up to the task of putting these two mismatched partners on opposite sides of a fractured superhero landscape. At $2.99, it's a 2006 snapshot of Marvel's universe at its most divided — and these two are right in the thick of it.