Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #11

Paolo Rivera's cover for Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #11 crackles with tension as a snarling Green Goblin looms overhead — pumpkin bomb in hand, glider beneath his feet — while a figure in a green-and-yellow suit, trailing mechanical tentacles, is caught mid-lunge against a massive web-patterned backdrop. The dynamic between these two figures suggests a volatile encounter that's anything but friendly. With Shinick, Checchetto, Frenz, and Rosenberg on the interior, this 2014 Marvel issue promises the kind of uneasy alliances and high-stakes conflict the Superior era did so well.