Secret Six #12

Wonder Woman has one of the Secret Six firmly in her grip on this striking Dan LuVisi cover — a silver-haired woman in a black bodysuit, bloodied and barely conscious, dangles from the Amazon's golden lasso as she looms over her with quiet, imposing authority. It's a visceral image that captures the tension Gail Simone's writing consistently brings to this series, with Nicola Scott and Doug Hazlewood handling interior art duties. "Depths, Part Three: Inferno" promises the kind of morally complicated confrontation that makes Secret Six one of DC's most compelling reads of 2009.