Spider-Man: Life Story #3

The cover of this third chapter in Chip Zdarsky's decade-spanning series is quietly haunting: Spider-Man in his black symbiote suit lies still inside a coffin, arms crossed, while an array of missiles — one bearing a Soviet hammer-and-sickle — hangs suspended above a tiny spider on a thread. Zdarsky's own minimalist cover art uses that stark pink palette to striking effect, pairing Cold War imagery with a funereal stillness that sets a genuinely unsettling tone for "The '80s" chapter. With Bagley, Dell, and D'Armata on interior duties, this is Life Story operating with both thematic ambition and real visual confidence.