Green Lantern: New Guardians #23

The massive, snarling face of Relic dominates this cover, his gold-and-black armored visage twisted with fury as a lone white-suited figure — glowing with a point of brilliant light — streaks away in the distance below him. It's a striking contrast of scale and mood, with Rafael Albuquerque's cover art making the threat feel genuinely overwhelming. Writer Justin Jordan and artist Brad Walker deliver issue #23 of this New 52 series under the tantalizing banner "The Rage of Relic!" — and the cover makes clear that hope, however small and bright, is going to be tested hard.