The Ultimates #2

The second issue of Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch, and Andrew Currie's reimagined super-team series arrives with a striking close-up of Iron Man's sleek red-and-silver Ultimate armor, its arc reactor and eye slits glowing an intense blue as the suit is either assembled or powered up amid industrial machinery. Hitch and Currie's cover renders every panel and servo of the armor with an almost cinematic level of mechanical detail, making the suit feel genuinely imposing at this scale. Subtitled "Big," this 2002 installment promises that the Ultimates universe is already thinking large.