Secret Six #35

Gail Simone and J. Calafiore bring their signature edge to this 2011 installment of DC's morally complicated team book, kicking off a two-part story with "Caution to the Wind." Daniel LuVisi's cover is a striking close-up portrait of a black-helmeted figure with a single glowing red eye, twin glowing-green radioactive canisters jutting from either side of the helmet, and toxic fluid crackling across bare skin like veins of neon lightning. It's a quietly menacing image that captures exactly the kind of dangerous, unpredictable energy that has made Secret Six one of DC's most compelling ongoing series.