Captain Marvel #3

The third chapter of this 2008 five-part limited series opens with a striking Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines cover that puts Captain Marvel — red-and-gold costume, star emblem blazing on his chest — in full freefall through a shattered glass facade, shards of debris tumbling all around him as the city looms below. It's a genuinely dynamic composition, flipping the hero upside-down to wring every ounce of momentum out of the image. With Brian Reed writing and Lee Weeks on interior art, "Deep Background" promises the kind of grounded intensity this series has been building toward.