Green Lantern #12

The tagline says it all — "The Blackness… Reaches Earth!" — and Doug Mahnke and Mark Irwin's cover delivers the dread in full, depicting a Green Lantern locked in desperate close-quarters combat with the dark-armored Black Hand against a burning cityscape, while a second emerald-ringed figure streaks in from the background. Part two of "The Revenge of Black Hand," this 2012 New 52 entry from writer Geoff Johns and artists Renato Guedes and Jim Calafiore promises the kind of high-stakes confrontation that makes Green Lantern stories so compelling. A great pick for anyone who loves cosmic horror brought right to humanity's doorstep.