DV8 #3

From the streets of a graffiti-tagged urban landscape, DV8 #3 (December 1996) sets a tense, unsettling tone with a cover by Mike Lopez and Troy Hubbs that layers threat upon threat — a towering, red-eyed werewolf-like creature looming in the shadows above a stocky, gun-wielding figure, while a startled young woman in the foreground reacts with wide-eyed alarm. The title "Neighborhood Threat" feels well-earned given the menace radiating off every figure on this striking Image Comics cover. With Warren Ellis scripting and Lopez on art, this mid-series issue promises the kind of dark, street-level tension that made DV8 one of the more provocative superhero books of its era.