Doom 2099 #36

Ashley Wood's cover for this December 1995 issue of Doom 2099 A.D. is arresting — a darkly armored figure in red and black cradles an injured blond woman in a blue top, her face battered and her expression dazed, against a smoldering orange backdrop. The composition carries a real sense of urgency and consequence, the kind of charged moment that made Marvel's 2099 line feel genuinely different from its contemporaries. With Warren Ellis writing and Steve Pugh on interior art, issue #36 — part one of "Shockriding: Street Legal" — is a compelling entry point into this futuristic corner of the Marvel Universe.