Deadman: Dead Again #3

The third chapter of this five-part 2001 DC miniseries arrives with a cover by José Luis García-López and Kevin Nowlan that stops you cold: a ghostly, grimacing Deadman looms large in his red costume while a battered Superman cradles an unconscious woman in the foreground, Superman's suit torn and stained beneath shreds of his own cape. The tagline "Farewell to a Friend" hangs over the scene with quiet weight, suggesting the crossover between Boston Brand and the Man of Steel has reached a genuinely emotional turning point. With interior work from writer Steve Vance and artist Leonard Kirk, this is a supernatural superhero team-up that clearly isn't pulling its punches by the halfway mark.