Ultimate Avengers #8

The second chapter of "Crime and Punishment" arrives with a cover that pulls no punches — a massively built, gold-chain-wearing bruiser dominates the image, electricity crackling across his body as he physically overwhelms an armored War Machine, whose arc reactor glows blue beneath an iron grip. Leinil Francis Yu and Gerry Alanguilan's cover work crackles with raw, close-quarters intensity, putting the sheer physical threat front and center in a way that sets a genuinely grim tone for this arc. Mark Millar's Ultimate universe continues to feel like a place where the stakes are refreshingly, uncomfortably real.