JLA: Year One #8

Martian Manhunter looms over a battered, wounded figure in a darkened, cavernous setting — the single word "EXPOSED!" blazing across the bottom of the cover sets a tense, confrontational tone for this penultimate chapter of DC's twelve-part origin saga. Barry Kitson's cover work gives J'onn J'onzz a commanding, unsettling presence, his expression caught somewhere between fury and urgency as he grips the injured man's collar. Written by Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn, JLA: Year One #8 keeps the pressure on the fledgling Justice League with a story titled "Loose Ends" — and the cover makes clear that at least one of those ends is being tied up the hard way.