Runaways #21

There's something wonderfully unexpected about Runaways #21 — a girl in a cat-eared headband diving fearlessly in front of a massive red semi truck, seemingly risking it all to shield a tiny cluster of ducklings from being crushed. Jo Chen's cover perfectly captures the book's spirit: big, chaotic danger meeting genuine, small-scale tenderness. Brian K. Vaughan and Mike Norton bring the "Dead Means Dead" arc to its conclusion inside, and this 2006 Marvel issue promises the kind of heart and high stakes that made Runaways such a standout series.