New Avengers #26

A somber, striking image anchors this 2015 entry in Jonathan Hickman's ambitious New Avengers run: a helmless figure in a sleek blue-and-silver Iron Man suit kneels amid smoldering rubble, arc reactor glowing as he bows his head in what looks like exhaustion or defeat. Salvador Larroca's cover art gives the scene real weight, and the banner warning — "In 6 months… time runs out!" — lends an urgent, countdown energy to the whole package. With Kevin Walker and Frank Martin handling interiors and the story titled "Cages," this issue promises the kind of morally fraught, high-stakes drama that defines Hickman's Illuminati saga.