Superman #221

Superman #221 brings a wonderfully off-kilter clash to the November 2005 DC lineup, with Ed Benes and Mariah Benes delivering a cover that pits Bizarro — chalky-skinned and grimacing in his reversed Superman costume — against the yellow-and-purple blur of Zoom in what the banner gleefully declares "Loser Take All!" The two figures surge forward across a checkered surface against a fiery orange sky, framing this as a Villains United tie-in with genuine energy and a darkly comic edge. Mark Verheiden and Ed Benes's "Jimmy's Day" promises an issue with plenty of strange, high-velocity mayhem.