Fantastic Four #609

Fantastic Four #609 arrives in 2012 with a cover that makes an immediate impression — the Thing trades earth-shaking blows with a massive green-skinned, white-haired bruiser, rocky orange fragments flying off from the sheer force of the collision. Ryan Stegman's pencils capture both combatants locked in a brutal, dynamic grapple that fills the entire frame with kinetic energy. With Jonathan Hickman steering the story into "The God Ship," this feels like exactly the kind of oversized confrontation that the series does so well.