24 #4

The fourth chapter of IDW's 24: Underground puts Jack Bauer squarely in the crosshairs — literally — as a drone's targeting overlay frames him in a red targeting reticle amid what appears to be a warehouse or shipping yard. A military drone looms above in surveillance-photo style, layered over a busy street scene, giving the whole cover a tense, multi-channel intelligence-operation feel that fits the 24 universe perfectly. With writing by Ed Brisson, art by Michael Gaydos and Josh Burcham's colors, and a sharp cover by Davide Furnò, this 2014 issue captures the paranoid, real-time urgency that made the franchise a phenomenon.