Green Arrow: Year One #3

Issue three of this six-part origin series finds Oliver Queen engulfed in a stunning blaze of orange and gold on Jock's cover, his hooded figure screaming and stumbling through what looks like an inferno of fire and light. The raw, painterly energy of the image — arrows scattered around him, chaos radiating in every direction — perfectly captures the desperate, survivalist tone Andy Diggle and Jock bring to this stripped-down retelling. A gripping midpoint in one of 2007's most atmospheric DC miniseries.