Ultimate Spider-Man #15

Spider-Man crouches with coiled, athletic precision atop a cluster of steel pipes against a cool blue sky, every muscle in that red-and-blue suit suggesting he's ready to spring into action at a moment's notice. Mark Bagley's cover pencils give the wall-crawler a wonderfully dynamic energy that defined this reimagined take on the character in 2002. Subtitled "Confrontations," this fifteenth issue of Ultimate Spider-Man — written by Brian Michael Bendis with inks by Art Thibert — promises exactly the kind of tense, high-stakes drama the title delivers so well.