2001 Nights #4

The cover of *2001 Nights* #4 sets an immediate tone of awe, depicting a NASA space shuttle climbing away from Earth's curved horizon, its engines still glowing as the blue-white planet fills the background beneath it. Yukinobu Hoshino's cover art captures the shuttle with crisp, almost photorealistic detail — a striking image that suits a series devoted to humanity's reach into the cosmos. With "Night 8: The Lights of Heaven" waiting inside, this 1990 Viz release is a fine entry point into one of manga's most thoughtfully realized explorations of spaceflight.