Green Lantern #35

Part of the sweeping "Godhead" crossover event, this New 52 issue plants Hal Jordan on his knees — battered but unbroken in his green-and-black uniform, power ring still glowing — while a terrified face peers up from below, and the cover's bold warning declares that tampering with the Source of Creation promises a terrible reckoning. Billy Tan's cover art captures a mood of genuine cosmic dread, framing Hal as a man caught between defiance and the weight of something far larger than himself. Robert Venditti's script and Tan's interiors promise that Act I, Part 2 of "Dead Worlds" keeps the stakes exactly as high as that ominous tagline suggests.