Spider-Girl #21

Spider-Girl throws down against the powerfully built, masked Earthshaker on the cover of issue #21, with a downed figure sprawled on the pavement below them — a street-level brawl that looks anything but easy for "the daughter of the true Spider-Man." The dynamic cover art by Patrick Olliffe and Al Williamson captures the hard-hitting energy of the encounter, with Spider-Girl's red-and-blue suit contrasting sharply against Earthshaker's lava-cracked, earth-toned frame. Tom DeFalco's 2000 Marvel Comics series was consistently delivering this kind of action-forward storytelling, and this issue looks ready to carry on that tradition in style.