Hitman #34

Superman looms large in the foreground — cape billowing, expression caught somewhere between wariness and reluctant amusement — while Tommy Monaghan leans against a rooftop wall behind him, cigarette in hand and a sly grin on his face, the two making for one of the more unlikely pairings Gotham City's rooftops have ever hosted. The tagline "Super Friends?" says it all, capturing the delicious tension between DC's most upstanding hero and its most cheerfully unrepentant contract killer. John McCrea's cover art, inked by his own hand, gives the scene a gritty, street-level energy that perfectly sets the tone for Garth Ennis's "Of Thee I Sing.