FF #18

Nick Dragotta and Chris Sotomayor bring Jonathan Hickman's FF run to issue #18 with a cover by Kalman Andrasofszky that is genuinely unsettling — two young children are engulfed by a mass of dark, alien creature forms, their faces frozen in wide-eyed terror, while a figure in a white FF uniform struggles against the writhing horde in the background. The story title, "What Do You Call the Opposite of a Field Trip?", perfectly matches the dread radiating from that image of kids in very serious danger. This 2012 Marvel issue delivers the kind of high-stakes, visually striking tension that made Hickman's FF run so compelling.