Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #2

Part of DC's 2010 Brightest Day event, this second issue of Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors opens with a striking cover by Rodolfo Migliari that pulls no punches — a Red Lantern looms over a battered Green Lantern, blood spattered across both figures, as the tagline "Succumb to the Rage!" makes the stakes unmistakably clear. The tension between emerald willpower and scarlet fury is rendered with visceral intensity, setting a dark, urgent tone for Peter J. Tomasi's story "Last Will: Lie of the Mind." With interior art by Fernando Pasarin and Cam Smith, this series was already signaling that it had no intention of playing it safe.