Superman for All Seasons #3

Tim Sale's cover for this third chapter of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's four-part 1998 miniseries is a stunning composition — Superman rendered almost entirely in silhouette, his red cape billowing dramatically as he hovers over a storm-battered Metropolis, lightning crackling through a bruised autumn sky below him. The "Fall" chapter's mood is perfectly captured in that tension between the Man of Steel's looming presence and the vulnerable city stretching out beneath him. With Bjarne Hansen's warm, smoldering color palette turning the horizon into something between a sunset and a catastrophe, this issue promises a Superman story as emotionally layered as the season it's named for.