Silver Surfer #13

Part of Marvel's 2015 Secret Wars crossover, this "Last Days of Silver Surfer" chapter presents a striking, unsettling image: a massive shadowy figure with a mechanical face looms over an eerily glowing, deteriorating Earth, while the Silver Surfer and a young woman in red race across his surfboard below, their clasped hands crackling with colorful energy. The contrast between the cosmic dread above and that small, defiant gesture of connection below gives Michael Allred's cover — colored beautifully by Laura Allred — an emotional weight that matches the story's ambitious title, "The Death of Everything That Ever Was or Ever Will Be." Dan Slott and the Allreds were clearly swinging for the fences with this one.