Incredible Hulk #68

The third chapter of the "Dead Like Me" arc arrives in this 2004 issue, and the cover by Mike Deodato Jr. says everything about the tone: the Hulk's unmistakable green fists reach upward from below, tangled and bound in a dense web of gossamer strands that seem to spell out the series title in ghostly light. It's a striking, almost suffocating image — raw gamma-powered strength caught in something it can't simply smash. With Bruce Jones writing and Dougie Braithwaite on interior art, this penultimate chapter promises the kind of tense, moody storytelling that defined this era of the title.