Spider-Men #4

The penultimate chapter of this 2012 Marvel limited series brings the crossover stakes into sharp focus, with a maskless Peter Parker cradling a battered Spider-Man helmet in his arms, his expression caught somewhere between grief and disbelief against a darkened cityscape dripping with red. Jimmy Cheung's cover art — with colors by Justin Ponsor — conveys real emotional weight, the kind of worn, battle-scarred desperation that signals the story is heading somewhere genuinely difficult. With Brian Michael Bendis writing and Sara Pichelli on interior art, Spider-Men #4 promises a compelling fourth act in a series built around "the most sensational heroes of two worlds.