Superior Spider-Man #24

The "Darkest Hours" arc reaches a fever pitch with this issue, whose Humberto Ramos cover is dominated by an enormous, slavering symbiote maw — all gnashing teeth, slick tongue, and cold predatory eyes filling the frame with unmistakable menace. It's a striking, visceral image that makes clear the Superior Spider-Man is facing something far beyond an ordinary threat. Slott, Gage, Ramos, Olazaba, and Delgado are delivering one of 2014's most intense chapters of this bold Spider-Man era.