Justice League Dark #18

The tagline "Magic's Last Stand!" sets the stakes perfectly for this 2013 New 52 chapter of "The Death of Magic." Mikel Janín's cover crackles with energy as the full Justice League Dark roster — including a lightning-wielding figure in leather armor, a dark-haired woman channeling a surge of power, John Constantine, a red-suited Deadman, and what appears to be Frankenstein's Monster — press forward against a looming mass of green, mechanized creatures, with a monstrous figure lurking behind them. With Jeff Lemire and Ray Fawkes steering the story and Janín handling both pencils and inks, this issue delivers the kind of supernatural team-against-the-odds tension that made Justice League Dark one of DC's most distinctive titles.