New Avengers #30

As the "Time Runs Out" countdown to Secret Wars ticks ever closer, issue #30 of Jonathan Hickman's New Avengers delivers a striking cover by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer: a battered but defiant Captain Britain stands tall in his Union Jack–emblazoned suit, fists clenched, looming over a battlefield strewn with fallen heroes — including a downed Spider-Man visible at his feet. The crimson, smoke-choked atmosphere and the sheer scale of the carnage hint at how desperate things have become for Marvel's mightiest, making this a compelling chapter in one of 2015's most ambitious ongoing stories.