Anima #15

Anima finds herself caught between two massive threats on Steve Crespo's cover for this 1995 DC series — a towering, spike-covered orange creature looms menacingly above her while an enormous set of snapping jaws rises from below, leaving the blonde heroine with energy crackling at her fists as her only defense. It's a striking visual squeeze that frames the series' supernatural intensity perfectly. With Paul Witcover and Elizabeth Hand at the writing helm and the evocative story title "Love Will Tear Us Apart Again," issue #15 promises the kind of darkly charged storytelling that made Anima one of DC's more intriguing mid-'90s offerings.