Ultimate Spider-Man #15

There's something quietly poignant about this cover: Spider-Man sits hunched and alone on a park bench near what appears to be Bethesda Fountain, surrounded by couples embracing, friends laughing, and a little girl blowing soap bubbles — everyone absorbed in their own happy moments while the wall-crawler seems lost in thought. David Lafuente's composition captures a real sense of adolescent isolation in the middle of a bustling, indifferent city crowd. Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli's 2010 run continues to find the deeply human side of the Spider-Man mythos, and this issue looks like no exception.