Death of the New Gods #6

Orion fills the entire cover of this penultimate chapter of Jim Starlin and Art Thibert's 2008 miniseries, his helmeted face — bearing that distinctive sun-disk emblem — locked in a fierce, teeth-bared grimace against a backdrop of churning flames. The tagline "Orion Unleashed!" says everything about the intensity on display, with cover pencils by Starlin and inks by Matt Banning giving the Son of Darkseid a raw, confrontational presence that makes "Sacrifice" feel like a reckoning. It's a striking close-up that sets the stakes high heading into the finale of this dark chapter for the New Gods mythology.