Bishop: XSE #3

Bishop looms large over this 1998 Marvel cover alongside a pale, scarred adversary — two titans framing a squad of armed figures charging headlong into action below them. Steve Epting's pencils and Mark Prudeaux's inks give the composition real kinetic energy, balancing the quiet menace of those towering faces against the forward momentum of the ground-level brawl. "Final Ploy" promises that writer John Ostrander has been building toward something, and issue #3 of Bishop: Xavier Security Enforcer looks ready to deliver on that tension.