The New 52: Futures End #48

The penultimate chapter of The New 52: Futures End announces itself with striking restraint — Ryan Sook's cover presents a single glowing red mechanical eye, unmistakably evocative of the series' AI menace Brother Eye, burning against an almost total void of black. It's a quietly unnerving image, the kind of minimalism that lands harder than any action-packed splash page could. With the full creative team of Azzarello, Lemire, Jurgens, and Giffen steering this weekly epic toward its 2015 conclusion, issue #48 promises the tension of a story hurtling toward its end.