Justice #6

The cover of Justice #6 delivers one of 2006's most arresting images: a small, blue-and-red costumed figure stands dwarfed beneath a massive, looming eye whose iris reveals the intense, leaf-crowned face of Poison Ivy staring back with cool menace. Alex Ross's painted cover work gives the composition a disquieting, almost dreamlike weight — the disparity in scale between the lone hero and that enormous, watching eye says everything about the stakes without a single word. With writing by Ross and Jim Krueger and interior art by Doug Braithwaite, Justice continues to be one of the most visually ambitious superhero series DC published that year.