Green Lantern Corps #14

Part of the Green Lantern line-wide "Rise of the Third Army" crossover, this January 2013 New 52 entry delivers an unsettling close-up of a figure being consumed — or transformed — by writhing, grotesque tendrils, a faint Green Lantern ring the only glimmer of color against the stark, monochromatic horror. Scott Clark's cover pencils and inks give the image a raw, almost sculptural intensity that feels genuinely threatening. With Peter J. Tomasi writing and Fernando Pasarin and Scott Hanna on interior art, Green Lantern Corps #14 promises the kind of grim, high-stakes tension that made this era of the Corps so compelling.