Chronos #2

The second issue of DC's 1998 time-travel series drops Chronos squarely into the Wild West, promising a "Showdown in Smallville" on a cover rendered by Paul Guinan. Dominating the foreground is a menacing, cybernetically enhanced gunslinger in a black hat, his mechanical eye gleaming red as he levels a massive multi-barreled weapon straight at the reader — while behind him, in the dusty main street outside the Smallville General Store, our hero squares off in a tense standoff, crackling energy at the ready. John Francis Moore and Guinan's blend of frontier atmosphere and science-fiction strangeness makes this "When the West Was Weird" showdown one of the more inventive set-pieces of the series.