Ascension #18

Top Cow's Ascension reaches issue #18 with a cover that pulls no punches — a red-haired, winged figure strains against the crushing coils of a massive serpentine creature, its fanged maw looming overhead in a sickly green haze. Brian Ching's pencils and Marlo Alquiza's inks deliver a genuinely visceral sense of desperate struggle, with every muscle and scale rendered in vivid, dynamic detail. David Quinn and the creative team bring their mythic world to a tense moment that makes this September 1999 issue hard to put back on the shelf.