Hawkeye Annual #1

Kate Bishop crouches in her red-and-white checkered outfit, bow drawn and ready, as a sea of eerie grey masks — one enormous and unsettling in the foreground, its eyes glowing red — looms behind her in Javier Pulido's striking cover for this 2013 annual. The visual contrast between Kate's vivid, determined figure and the blank, otherworldly masks surrounding her sets a wonderfully tense mood. At $4.99, this oversized issue from Matt Fraction, Pulido, and colorist Matt Hollingsworth is a compelling addition to one of Marvel's most stylish runs of 2013.