Ultimate Spider-Man #13

Something is very wrong in the world of Ultimate Spider-Man — the wall-crawler crouches low amid a sea of scattered $50 bills and spent shotgun shells, aiming an oversized shotgun directly at the reader in a tense, unsettling image that feels completely at odds with the hero's usual code. David Lafuente's cover art for issue #13 of this 2010 series delivers a mood of grim desperation, with colorist Justin Ponsor's rich reds making Spidey pop against the green cascade of cash. Part five of "Tainted Love" promises that Brian Michael Bendis's story has pushed its hero into some very compromising territory.