Ultimate Spider-Man #1

Spider-Man lunges straight toward you on this fresh #1 cover, red-and-blue suit crisp against a city skyline lit with an orange glow, web-lines trailing behind him as a dark-costumed, brown-haired figure swings in the background. David Lafuente's linework gives the whole image a kinetic, almost animated energy that feels perfectly suited to 2009's renewed sense of possibility for the Ultimate line. With Brian Michael Bendis writing and Justin Ponsor's warm colors setting the mood, this opener to "The New World According to Peter Parker" promises an exciting new chapter for Marvel's Ultimate universe.