Powers #11

Bendis and Oeming's gritty superhero-homicide series returns under Marvel's Icon imprint with this 2012 installment, announced boldly with "We're Back!! All New!!" across the top. Michael Avon Oeming's cover sets an immediately somber tone — a man cradling a gravely wounded woman in a darkened, rubble-strewn alley, her bloodied torso and the spreading crimson pooling beneath her making the stakes unmistakably clear. It's a quietly wrenching image that captures exactly what Powers does best: grounding extraordinary circumstances in raw, human cost.