Green Lantern #18

Part five of "Wrath of the First Lantern" arrives with a cover that wastes no time setting a desperate tone — Hal Jordan and a snarling Sinestro blaze with green energy as they fight through a press of decaying, zombie-like figures, while the massive, eerie visage of the First Lantern looms over everything from above. Gary Frank's cover pencils and inks deliver a real sense of claustrophobic dread, with the tagline "Trapped in the Land of Death!" making the stakes unmistakably clear. It's a striking 2013 chapter in Geoff Johns's New 52 Green Lantern run, capturing two rivals apparently forced to stand together against something far worse than each other.