Armageddon 2001 #1

DC's sweeping 1991 crossover event kicks off here, with a cover by Dan Jurgens and Terry Austin that says everything about the stakes: Superman, The Flash, Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, and a crowd of DC's finest stand divided on a barren landscape, facing a glowing golden figure suspended within a massive mechanical form looming in the cosmos above them. The tagline says it plainly — "Ten years from now the world will survive… these heroes won't" — and the sense of scale and dread Jurgens and Austin pack into that single image is genuinely impressive. Written by Archie Goodwin with interior art by Jurgens and Dick Giordano, this special also introduces Wave Rider, the enigmatic figure at the center of it all.