Justice League Dark #5

Ryan Sook's cover for this March 2012 New 52 installment plunges readers straight into supernatural chaos, depicting a dark-haired woman in a black corset dress at the center of a frenzied, swirling mass of figures — including a trench-coated blond man, a woman in red, and a tide of grotesque green creatures closing in from all sides. A young man with wild hair and outstretched hands anchors the foreground, his expression fierce against a blazing golden-orange energy surge. Peter Milligan and Mikel Janín close out their opening arc, "In the Dark, Finale: There Was a Crooked Man," with a cover that makes the urgency of this team's supernatural struggle feel wonderfully, messily real.