Justice League: Generation Lost #21

Part of DC's 2011 Brightest Day crossover, this penultimate chapter of Justice League: Generation Lost delivers one of the run's most quietly devastating images: Blue Beetle, small and alone against a vast white void, sprawled motionless on the ground in his blue-and-gold armor. Dustin Nguyen's cover is spare and striking, letting the isolation speak for itself without a single word of explanation. Judd Winick, Fernando Dagnino, and Raúl Fernández carry that tension into "The Dark of Morning's Light" — a title that promises no easy resolution as the series heads toward its finale.