Forever Evil #5

Five issues into DC's seven-part New 52 event, Forever Evil arrives at a pivotal midpoint with a cover by David Finch and Richard Friend that crackles with menace. Lex Luthor charges forward front and center, jaw set with cold fury, while Batman and Catwoman flank him — an uneasy alliance made visible — and looming above them all is a grotesque, roaring Ultraman alongside two other powerful Crime Syndicate figures wreathed in energy. It's a striking collision of heroes and villains sharing the same frame, written by Geoff Johns and drawn by the same Finch–Friend team whose bold linework gives every figure a ferocious, kinetic weight.