Rann / Thanagar Holy War #8

The "cataclysmic conclusion" promised by the cover is fully on display here — Superman, Hawkman, Firestorm, and Adam Strange lead a massive charge against overwhelming alien forces, rendered in sweeping, kinetic style by cover artists Jim Starlin and Rob Hunter. Bodies press in from every direction against a star-filled cosmos, capturing the all-out scale of a war that has spanned eight issues. Writer Jim Starlin and artist Ron Lim bring "Sacrifice and Loss" home in this 2009 finale, and the cover alone makes clear that no one is getting out of this fight easily.