Fantastic Four #559

The cover of Fantastic Four #559 poses a tantalizing question in bold text: "Who are the New Defenders? And why must they kill the Human Torch and Doctor Doom?" Bryan Hitch and Andrew Currie's cover art delivers a striking ensemble of figures — including a Hulk-like behemoth, a Silver Surfer-esque chrome figure, a flaming human form, and several costumed heroes surging forward amid rubble and chaos, with a woman conjuring glowing energy at the left. Mark Millar and Hitch's 2008 run on Marvel's First Family was clearly swinging for big, ambitious storytelling, and this issue — Part 2 of "Death of the Invisible Woman" — looks like it's delivering on that promise.