Fear Itself: The Fearless #11

The penultimate chapter of this twelve-issue limited series arrives with a cover by Arthur Adams that says everything about the stakes — a massive armored figure dominates the image, hammer raised, as an enormous crowd of Marvel heroes including Thor, Iron Man, Wolverine, She-Hulk, the Thing, and many more surge in from every direction in a desperate all-out assault. Written by Cullen Bunn, Matt Fraction, and Chris Yost, with interior art from both Mark Bagley and Paul Pelletier, this is a creative team firing on all cylinders heading into the finale. With one issue left in 2012's "Fear Itself: The Fearless," the cover alone makes clear that "Last Ride…" is exactly the kind of climactic confrontation the title has been building toward.