Fantastic Four #567

This bruising 2009 chapter of Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's celebrated run delivers one of the run's most visceral cover images: a battered, bloodied Reed Richards slumped among debris, the armored mask of Doctor Doom looming ominously between him and a looming, rocky-fisted figure that can only be the Thing — both of them clearly worse for wear. Bryan Hitch's pencils bring an unflinching, almost cinematic weight to the scene, conveying that whatever confrontation is unfolding inside, no one is walking away unscathed. "Doom's Master, Part Two of Four" promises the kind of high-stakes cosmic threat that makes Fantastic Four storytelling genuinely compelling.