Astronauts in Trouble #1

Three self-assured figures — a curly-haired woman with aviator goggles, flanked by two men, one arms-crossed and one wearing a fedora — stand against a full moon in a star-filled sky, projecting exactly the kind of confident cool the title Astronauts in Trouble promises. A strip of action vignettes runs along the bottom, hinting at the tension between the space program, media, and terrorism that Entertainment Weekly described as "just close enough to reality to be scary." Charlie Adlard's linework gives this Image opener a grounded, almost cinematic feel, and with eleven issues in the series, "Murders and Acquisitions" looks like a compelling place to start.