The All New Atom #3

Ariel Olivetti's cover for this November 2006 issue says everything you need to know about the series' delightfully strange ambitions: the All New Atom stands atop a gigantic disembodied eyeball, recoiling from the writhing, ribbon-like tendrils that surround him in a surreal, fleshy landscape. Subtitled "Eye of the Storm," this third chapter of "My Life in Miniature" finds Gail Simone, John Byrne, and Trevor Scott deep into establishing a hero whose microscopic adventures are anything but small. It's the kind of cover that stops you mid-flip — equal parts unsettling and thrilling.