The Flash #37

The New 52's The Flash #37 introduces Overload, a crackling, energy-saturated threat who dominates this cover in a blaze of white-hot light and golden lightning — the cover tagline warns he won't stop until thousands are dead, and the visual fury backs up every word of that promise. Brett Booth's pencils and Norm Rapmund's inks deliver a beautifully chaotic collision of speed-force energy and raw menace, with the Flash seemingly caught in the heart of the storm. It's a striking 2015 entry in Venditti and Jensen's run that sets the stakes high before you've even cracked the spine.