Blue Beetle #2

Part of DC's 2023 Dawn of DC initiative, Blue Beetle #2 drops readers right into the thick of "Scarab War: Chapter Two" with a cover that makes an immediate, striking impression. A caped figure in red looms large against a blazing golden sky, while in the foreground a battered Blue Beetle — Ted Kord — lies sprawled and motionless, his distinctive goggles cracked and splattered, the cover copy bluntly announcing him "a crushed Beetle." Adrián Gutiérrez's cover art delivers a compelling contrast of scale and vulnerability that sets a genuinely dramatic tone for Josh Trujillo's story within.