Hercules #5

The five-issue limited series comes to its fiery conclusion with a cover that says everything about the stakes — a massively muscled Hercules squaring off bare-handed against a snarling, multi-headed Cerberus, a serpent coiling menacingly above the beast against a wall of roaring flame. Mark Texeira's cover art captures the raw physicality of the confrontation beautifully, every snarl and sinew rendered with gritty intensity. If Frank Tieri and Texeira's "New Labors of Hercules" has been building toward one defining image, this is it.