Peter Parker: Spider-Man #27

Spider-Man hurtles along a streak of crackling electric-blue energy against a stark black void on Kaare Andrews' cover for Peter Parker: Spider-Man #27 — a striking, almost cinematic image that gives the wall-crawler a sense of both tremendous speed and strange vulnerability. The glowing current surrounding him suggests forces well beyond everyday web-slinging, setting an intriguing tone for Paul Jenkins and Mark Buckingham's "Getting Ahead." It's a visually confident issue from a creative team that clearly had a lot of fun pushing the book's atmosphere in 2001.