The Final Night #3

The cover of this third chapter in DC's 1996 The Final Night event says it all — Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, and the Flash are scattered and tumbling through a debris-filled, snow-choked sky, their expressions grim against what feels like a dying world. Stuart Immonen and José Marzán Jr. frame the four heroes not in triumph but in desperate, weary struggle, which makes the subtitle "Shallow Graves" hit with quiet, unsettling weight. Karl Kesel and Immonen's "Keeping Hope Alive" promises exactly the kind of stakes-laden storytelling that made this crossover event one of 1996's most ambitious DC undertakings.