Captain America & the Falcon #9

Part 2 of the "Brothers & Keepers" arc, this issue drops Captain America into a harrowing battlefield strewn with skulls and decay, barbed wire fencing stretching behind him as lightning tears through a stormy sky — a striking image penciled and inked by Joe Bennett and Jack Jadson. Shield in hand, Cap stands resolute amid the carnage, projecting a quiet but unmistakable defiance against whatever darkness surrounds him. Writer Priest's "Hunters" chapter promises the kind of tense, morally charged storytelling that made this 2005 series one of Marvel's more compelling team-up titles.