Squadron Supreme #4

The Squadron Supreme's tagline — "Protecting the Marvel Universe by any means necessary!" — feels viscerally real on Alex Ross's painted cover, which captures a red-haired woman in a lightning-bolt costume straining in apparent anguish or fury, flanked by a powerful bare-chested figure and a costumed hero, all loomed over by a dark, armored presence descending from above. Ross's painterly realism gives the scene a weight that makes the team's moral complexity feel immediate. James Robinson and Leonard Kirk's fourth issue promises the kind of high-stakes tension that suits a team willing to cross lines most heroes won't.