JLA #102

The world's fastest man looks anything but fast on Ron Garney's striking cover for this 2004 DC title — the Flash stands hunched and motionless, scattered autumn leaves drifting around him as the tagline "Stopped Dead!" hangs in the air with quiet menace. It's a genuinely compelling visual contradiction, the Scarlet Speedster stripped of his defining quality, rendered in Garney's bold, muscular linework. Chuck Austen's six-part "The Pain of the Gods" arc is in full swing by part two, and this cover alone makes a strong case for picking up the issue.