New Avengers #24

Gabriele Dell'Otto's cover for New Avengers #24 is a striking, blood-red tableau dominated by two towering figures — a massive armored titan and a horned, spear-wielding warrior — striding forward with a shadowy army at their backs. The ominous banner promising "In 8 months… Time Runs Out!" gives the scene an urgent, countdown-clock weight that Jonathan Hickman's ongoing Illuminati saga has been building toward. With interior art by Valerio Schiti and colors by Frank Martin and David Curiel, "The Cabal" looks like a genuinely tense chapter in one of Marvel's most ambitious 2014 storylines.