Justice League International #10

The cover by David Finch and Richard Friend sets a genuinely unsettling tone for issue #10 of the New 52's Justice League International — a massive, grotesque red villain looms triumphantly overhead while Booster Gold writhes in apparent agony and two other heroes lie battered and helpless at his feet. That bold cover tag — "Powerless in the Grip of… Breakdown!" — says it all: writer Dan Jurgens and artist Aaron Lopresti's team is in serious trouble in "The Burners." It's a striking 2012 chapter that makes clear this international squad is facing something well beyond their current grasp.