Symbiote Spider-Man: Crossroads #3

The black-suited Spider-Man looks absolutely outmatched on Greg Land's striking cover, shown airborne and clutching a primitive spear while a massive, crimson-scaled reptilian beast dominates the foreground with glowing amber eyes and a maw lined with savage teeth. It's a wild, prehistoric-feeling confrontation that signals Peter David's Symbiote Crossroads story is taking the symbiote era of Spider-Man somewhere genuinely unexpected. If you've been following this series, issue #3 promises the kind of larger-than-life danger that makes the black suit feel both powerful and very, very small.