Ultimate Comics X-Men #15

Part of Marvel's 2012 "Divided We Fall" crossover, this issue drops readers into a tense, high-stakes moment rendered on a striking orange cover by Phil Noto: a massive, looming face dominates the background while a squad of Sentinel-like robots bears down on a small group of young mutants sprinting across a stylized map of the United States. The contrast between the vulnerable, ground-level figures and the mechanical threat hovering above them captures the series' sharp sense of mutantkind under siege. With Brian Wood writing and Paco Medina on interior art, this chapter promises the kind of politically charged, character-driven X-Men storytelling that made this run stand out.