Capes #1

Robert Kirkman and Mark Englert launch this Image series with a cover that immediately signals its comedic sensibility: a red-faced, rocky-skinned brute looms large in the foreground while a blond hero in red swings a stone hammer and pleads for backup — only to be waved off by a blue-suited hero lounging on a park bench who still has ten minutes left on his break. It's a genuinely funny premise rendered with energy and clarity by Englert, whose cover art sets up a world where superheroics are just another job with union rules and uncooperative coworkers. If 2003 Image superhero comedy sounds like your kind of thing, this first issue makes a strong case for itself right on the cover.