Spider-Man: Life Story #6

The concluding chapter of Chip Zdarsky and Mark Bagley's celebrated miniseries arrives with a cover — penciled and inked by Zdarsky himself — that quietly commands attention: an aging Spider-Man tumbles through pure darkness, his red-and-black suit the only light in the frame, limbs splayed in a way that feels more like surrender than acrobatics. Setting this issue in "The '10s" completes the series' decade-by-decade journey through Peter Parker's life as a genuinely mortal man, and that stark, near-wordless image carries the weight of everything that journey implies. It's a rare superhero cover that earns its solemnity.