Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now #2

Three silhouetted figures — one clutching a cell phone, one wearing a "Choose Your Weapon" t-shirt and working a keyboard, one carrying a laptop — stand against a fiery red sky as a tower (unmistakably Toronto's CN Tower) crumbles in ruins behind them. Scott Morse's cover image frames the story's title perfectly: "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth," a world where the people who keep networks running may be humanity's last line of defense. This 2007 IDW release adapts Cory Doctorow's near-future fiction with a sense of real urgency that's hard to shake.