Universe X #7

Issue seven of Marvel's ambitious alternate-future saga presents a striking cover by Alex Ross that bathes everything in an eerie, suffocating green. A sleek, red-eyed robot figure stands at center, flanked by a winged, caped warrior on the left and a grim figure in a long coat on the right, all three dwarfed by a massive, looming green presence that fills the background — its ghostly bubbles containing dozens of trapped faces. The beam of golden light cutting through the title logo adds a sense of desperate hope against that overwhelming otherworldly threat, making this one of 2001's most visually haunting covers in the series.