Green Lantern Corps #40

Part of DC's sprawling 2009 "Blackest Night" crossover event, Green Lantern Corps #40 delivers a cover that crackles with dread — a determined Green Lantern charges forward, ring blazing with yellow-green light, while allies scramble behind him against a tide of horrifying undead Black Lantern attackers, all framed by that blood-red promise of "FEAST!" Patrick Gleason's pencils and Rebecca Buchman's inks pack the composition with urgent, kinetic energy, balancing heroic defiance against genuinely unsettling horror. Peter J. Tomasi's "Heart of Darkness" looks to be exactly the kind of dark, high-stakes chapter that made this era of Green Lantern storytelling so compelling.