Defenders #10

The Defenders are living up to their tagline — "Protecting Humanity from the Impossible" — as this 2012 Marvel issue drops the team headlong into a swarm of oversized insects. The cover by Joe Quinones places Silver Surfer, Doctor Strange, She-Hulk (in her red-skinned form), a figure in an Iron Fist-style costume, a masked hero in white, and a one-eyed gunslinger at the center of a chaotic clash with giant ants, a praying mantis, flies, and wasps rendered in impressive, unsettling scale. It's a vivid, energetic composition that makes the Defenders' self-described mission feel thrillingly literal.