Invincible #69

A warrior woman in armored costume dominates this Ryan Ottley cover, raising a double-headed axe with cool authority while crackling energy lights the sky behind her. At her feet, a dark-clad male figure recoils and a red-haired woman lies struggling on the shattered ground — the tension between the three figures crackles with as much electricity as the cover's blazing backdrop. Robert Kirkman's "All-New, All-Awesome" era of Invincible was hitting its stride in 2009, and this striking composition makes a strong case for why.