Justice League: Generation Lost #8

Part of DC's 2010 Brightest Day crossover event, this issue of Justice League: Generation Lost places the team — Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Rocket Red, Fire, and Ice — on a chessboard-patterned floor, squared off against an overwhelming force of heavily armed soldiers closing in from all sides. The chess motif says everything about the odds stacked against this group, and Cliff Chiang's clean, confident linework gives the standoff a cool tension that's hard to look away from. Judd Winick, Aaron Lopresti, and Matt Ryan bring this corner of the Brightest Day saga to life with a cover that frames the team as seriously outgunned but far from finished.