Green Lantern: New Guardians: Futures End #1

Part of DC's 2014 The New 52: Futures End event, this one-shot tie-in delivers "The Test" — a title that feels especially charged given the cover's stunning image of a figure in a black costume erupting with a blinding white-hot burst of energy, screaming as raw power explodes outward in every direction. Penciled and inked by the interior team of Diógenes Neves and Marc Deering, the cover has a striking black-and-white inset quality framed against a vivid yellow-orange glow, giving the whole thing an urgent, almost apocalyptic atmosphere. If this is what the New Guardians face in a possible future, the stakes couldn't feel higher.