Fantastic Four #580

Part of Marvel's 2010 Heroic Age initiative, Fantastic Four #580 delivers a wonderfully surreal cover by Alan Davis, Mark Farmer, and Javier Rodríguez — the Human Torch blazes at center while a chaotic swirl of toy blocks, knife-wielding Victorian dolls, a cackling jester, a snarling beast, a military vehicle, and scattered playthings erupt all around him. The cover's teasing quote — "I promise…I've given up games of murder" — hints at something delightfully twisted lurking beneath the brightly colored mayhem. Jonathan Hickman's "The Frank-tastic Four" chapter, brought to life by Neil Edwards, Andrew Currie, and Paul Mounts, promises the kind of imaginative strangeness that makes this run so compelling.