Battle Beasts #2

Three armored beast-warriors — a lion in golden plate and red cape, a massive walrus with glowing blue cybernetic implants, and a wolf wielding a broad battle-axe — crowd a San Francisco street while a hawk-like figure crouches tensely between them, daggers drawn. Valerio Schiti's cover art for this 2012 IDW series crackles with the sense of an uneasy alliance about to be tested, framed against police cruisers and a crowd of onlookers. Bobby Curnow and Schiti's Battle Beasts brings a fresh, action-charged energy to anthropomorphic warrior fiction that's hard to resist.