The Boys #70

Darick Robertson's cover for The Boys #70 delivers an arresting image: a figure in dark clothing plunges through a surface of churning water, one hand thrust desperately upward while their face — wide-eyed and screaming — disappears beneath the waves alongside scattered debris. It's a striking, vertigo-inducing composition that perfectly captures the brutal momentum Garth Ennis and Russ Braun have sustained across "The Bloody Doors Off." With the penultimate chapter of this arc hitting shelves in 2012, this is mature, unflinching storytelling from one of comics' most uncompromising creative teams.