Green Arrow #30

Part of Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino's "Outsiders War" arc, this fifth chapter — subtitled "Family" — arrives with a cover that is all atmosphere and menace. A hooded, shadowed archer looms large against a blazing gold background, arrows at the ready, while a smaller masked figure crouches below beneath the emblem of the Sword Clan and its haunting creed: speed, precision, soul. Sorrentino's stark, painterly composition makes the tension palpable before you've turned a single page.