New Avengers #16

This Civil War II tie-in brings Al Ewing's "A.I.M. vs. S.H.I.E.L.D." arc to a fierce crescendo, with Julian Totino Tedesco's cover painting depicting two combatants — one in a sharp suit wreathed in fiery orange energy, the other in a sleek armored suit blazing with cool blue light — locked in a thunderous mid-air clash amid a storm of shattered debris. The explosive symmetry of fire and ice, warm and cold, makes the confrontation feel genuinely epic in scale. With Paco Medina on interior art and Ewing's sharp storytelling, this 2016 installment promises the kind of superhero conflict where ideology and raw power collide.