The Spider #2

Dynamite's 2012 revival of pulp vigilante the Spider makes a striking statement with issue #2, featuring a vertiginous worm's-eye view of the dark-hatted, dual-pistol-wielding figure descending from an enormous spider's web strung between city skyscrapers. The composition by cover artist John Cassaday is genuinely arresting — that sweeping web overhead and the glittering urban skyline below give the Spider an almost mythic scale against the night sky. With David Liss scripting and Colton Worley handling the interior art, this series brings serious creative firepower to one of pulp fiction's most enduring crime-fighters.