Secret Wars #7

With two issues left in Jonathan Hickman's nine-part saga, issue #7 — "King of the Dead" — arrives at a breathtaking turning point, rendered on the cover by Alex Ross in his signature painterly style. The cover sweeps across a vast cosmic battlefield where dozens of Marvel heroes and villains — Spider-Man, a silver-suited figure unleashing crackling energy at the center, Thor, the Hulk, Spider-Man 2099, the Human Torch, and wave upon wave of recognizable figures — converge around a massive, crumbling mechanical structure engulfed in fire and lightning. Esad Ribić and Ive Svorcina carry that same epic scale into the interior, making this one of 2016's most visually ambitious chapters in a series that has never been shy about its ambitions.