Thor: God of Thunder #6

That cover image alone — a pale, grinning figure clutching Mjolnir with dark veins crawling across his skin, lightning crackling at his feet — makes it clear that Jason Aaron's Thor: God of Thunder is not pulling any punches in 2013. Esad Ribić's painted cover art gives the scene an unsettling, almost mythic weight, and whoever this being is, seeing him grip the hammer of the Odinson with such gleeful menace sets a genuinely ominous tone. With Butch Guice on interior art and the story titled "What the Gods Have Wrought," this sixth issue promises the kind of cosmic-scale dread that makes this run so compelling.