Superman: Day of Doom #4

The concluding chapter of this 2003 DC miniseries arrives with a cover by Dan Jurgens and Bill Sienkiewicz that says everything with quiet gravity: Superman hovers alone above a vast, wintry cemetery, his red cape billowing against a pale, overcast sky and bare, skeletal trees. It's a haunting, elegiac image that captures the weight of the subtitle — "World Without a Superman" — without a single punch thrown. Dan Jurgens and Sienkiewicz make a formidable team here, and this fourth-of-four issue is a fitting, somber close to the series.