Alpha Flight #9

Part one of "Days of Future Present, Past Participle" kicks off a four-issue arc for the All-New, All-Different Alpha Flight, and Clayton Henry and Mark Morales set the tone immediately with a cover that's equal parts urgent and ominous. Two figures — a red-and-white-suited male hero and a masked woman in a yellow-and-blue costume — lunge forward against a grim wanted-style board plastered with headshots labeled "Slain" and "Apprehended," hinting at a world that has not been kind to super-teams. Scott Lobdell's 2005 take on Canada's premier super-group feels like it's hitting its stride right here, with the stakes written quite literally on the wall behind its heroes.