JLA: Year One #11

Behind a chain-link fence, a battered, bloodied Hal Jordan reaches desperately upward while Black Canary, Green Arrow, Aquaman, The Flash, and a crouching Batman are caught in what feels like a grim wartime roundup — with Superman hanging bound in the background. Barry Kitson's cover for this penultimate chapter of JLA: Year One sells the title "Stalag Earth" perfectly, conveying a Justice League pushed to its absolute limits. Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn's twelve-issue saga is heading toward its conclusion, and issue #11 makes clear the founding heroes have never faced higher stakes.