Invincible #72

Part of the sweeping "Viltrumite War" saga, this 2010 installment of Robert Kirkman's Invincible presents a striking cosmic lineup on Ryan Ottley and Dexter Vines's cover: Invincible himself stands front and center in his signature blue-and-black suit, fists clenched and ready, flanked by a silver-caped ally and a powerful pink-skinned Viltrumite in flight. Looming large beneath them in a split panel are two intense, mustachioed faces — a quiet but unmistakable promise of conflict on a galactic scale. With Ottley's dynamic linework backed by FCO Plascencia's deep cosmic purples, this issue looks every bit as ambitious as the epic storyline it belongs to.