Damage Control #4

The concluding chapter of the "Cosmic Debris Saga" goes out with a gleeful bang, and Ernie Colón's cover makes the ambition clear: practically the entire Marvel universe — Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, the Thing, Wolverine, Doctor Strange, the Punisher, Ghost Rider, and a crowd of civilians and suits — is swept up in a churning wave of cosmic chaos, with cheeky tombstones riffing on Secret Wars and the Infinity Gauntlet planted right in the foreground. It's a wonderfully crowded, affectionate send-up of Marvel's big-event storytelling, with Damage Control's ordinary (and not-so-ordinary) cast caught right in the middle of the superhero pile-up. Dwayne McDuffie's sharp comic sensibility pairs perfectly with Colón's expressive, wall-to-wall composition for a satisfying finish to the series.