Invincible #137

Part five of the twelve-part "End of All Things" finale arc, this 2017 Image/Skybound issue assembles a striking ensemble on its cover — a confident young woman in civilian clothes stands front and center, surrounded by a crowd of costumed heroes and imposing figures, with massive alien spacecraft looming in the hazy background. The sheer number of characters packed into Ryan Ottley's cover composition signals the enormous scale of the story unfolding, from a brooding mustachioed villain-type dominating the lower left to a small dark-haired girl peering up from the foreground. If you've been following Mark Grayson's saga, this penultimate stretch of Invincible carries the kind of weight that reminds you why the series proudly calls itself "the best superhero comic in the universe.