Fear Itself: The Home Front #1

Fear Itself: The Home Front kicks off this seven-issue limited series by bringing the ground-level human cost of Marvel's 2011 event into sharp focus. Marko Djurdjević's cover assembles a compelling crowd of faces — including Iron Man, Thor, and a figure in Captain America's star-spangled uniform alongside a range of civilians and lesser-known heroes — their expressions uniformly tense, reflecting a nation bracing for something it doesn't fully understand yet. With Christos Gage writing and Mike Mayhew on interior art, this is the tie-in that promises to show how ordinary people and street-level champions weather the storm when the world's mightiest aren't enough.