Hulk: Gray #5

Penultimate issue of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's six-part limited series, and this cover alone makes the case for why their collaboration works so well. Tim Sale fills the frame with an extreme close-up of the gray Hulk's massive face — rendered almost entirely in brooding grayscale, with a single vivid green eye staring out and clenched white teeth bared in barely contained fury. It's an intimate, unsettling portrait that captures the raw, lonely menace at the heart of this story with quiet confidence.