Green Lantern Corps #22

A Green Lantern stands defiant against a stormy, planet-filled sky, a crackling pink energy spear driving through his torso as tendrils coil around his feet — the cover tagline "Fatal Wounds!" says everything about the stakes Van Jensen and Robert Venditti are setting up in "Meltdown." J. G. Jones's painted cover work gives the scene a vivid, almost cinematic weight, with the lightning-laced weapon and the Lantern's grimly determined expression holding your eye. New 52 readers in September 2013 had every reason to be concerned for the Corps.