Captain Midnight #8

Captain Midnight looms large in his signature purple-and-red costume and aviator goggles as a jungle brawl erupts below him — a blonde woman firing a weapon, a skull-masked gunman, a hooded figure, and a determined dark-haired woman all collide amid the tropical foliage, while a more cautious figure hangs back to observe. Felipe Massafera's richly painted cover teases the story's central question right on the cover text: "The Fate of Midnight's Sidekick… Revealed!" — a promise that gives this 2014 Dark Horse issue an air of real consequence. Writer Joshua Williamson and artist Fernando Dagnino bring the tension in "Helios," and the cover makes it hard not to flip straight to page one.