10th Muse #1

From Image Comics in 2000 comes this opening chapter of 10th Muse, subtitled "Renamed," with a Ken Lashley cover that immediately establishes a rich cast of characters. Center stage is the armored, blonde heroine crackling with blue energy, sword at the ready, flanked by a brooding dark-haired man inset against a city skyline, a red-haired woman and a glowing-eyed blond companion wrapped in a sweeping cape, and a glowering, decay-faced villain lurking at the lower corner. Writer Marv Wolfman and artist Ken Lashley bring a mythology-tinged world to life here, with vine-wrapped classical columns setting an atmosphere that blends ancient Greece with modern superheroics.