Ares #1

Marvel's 2006 miniseries opens with a striking cover by Travel Foreman and Derek Fridolfs: the Greek god of war stands with his back half-turned to us, a great spear resting across his shoulders, clad in ancient lion-adorned armor with a flowing red cape and crested helmet — a figure radiating both weariness and coiled menace against a blood-red sky. Lightning crackles over a burning cityscape in the background, suggesting a world never far from chaos when Ares is near. Writer Mike Oeming kicks off this five-part saga with an image that promises something more brooding and mythologically grounded than your average superhero fare.