Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4

Issue four of six in Darwyn Cooke's Before Watchmen: Minutemen finds Nite Owl and the Silhouette pressed together in a tense, close-quarters moment — their distinctive masks and star-spangled costumes filling the frame against a gritty metal manhole cover, with a looming shadowed figure overhead suggesting danger from every angle. Cooke's cover art (pencils and inks his own) captures that signature blend of retro design and street-level tension that defines this series. "War Stories" promises the kind of chapter that digs into the complicated humanity behind these golden-age heroes.