The Titans #13

The cover of this March 2000 issue says everything with quiet, unsettling eloquence: the entire Titans team — rendered in civilian clothes, their backs to us — walks away from a scattered pile of discarded costumes and hero gear strewn across the ground below them. With cover art by Mark Buckingham and Wade von Grawbadger (offered as a deliberate homage "after Pérez"), the image carries real emotional weight, suggesting a team at a crossroads between their superhero identities and something more ordinary. Writer duo Devin Grayson and Jay Faerber, paired with artist Patrick Zircher, were crafting some genuinely compelling character work during this run, and "Fallout" sounds like exactly the kind of story that earns a cover this thoughtful.