Teen Titans #78

Part of DC's sprawling "Blackest Night" crossover event, Teen Titans #78 arrives in February 2010 with a cover that pulses with menace — two figures in the distinctive blue-and-gold armored costume of Ravager clash blades against a wave of grasping undead hands set against a blood-red sky crackling with lightning. The dynamic pencils by Joe Bennett, inked by Jack Jadson, pack the composition with urgent energy, pitting the living against the relentless dead in a scene that feels genuinely dire. With J.T. Krul writing and the "Tortured Souls" story title promising plenty of darkness, this issue sits squarely at the intersection of teen heroism and supernatural dread.