Secret Invasion: Front Line #1

The Skrull invasion hits the street level in this 2008 Marvel limited series opener, with a cover by Juan Doe that sets a genuinely unsettling tone — a massive, luminous green skull looms from the shadows, a single burning eye socket blazing orange-gold, while a smaller skull rests eerily at its base amid tangled crimson tendrils. Writer Brian Reed and artist Marco Castiello take the sprawling Secret Invasion event down to ground zero, promising a human-scale perspective on an alien apocalypse. Five issues to tell the story of ordinary people caught in extraordinary chaos — "Chapter One: The End of the World" is a hell of a place to start.