Dynamo 5 #16

Five young heroes united by blood and legacy fill this 2008 Image series cover, with a red-and-blue-costumed woman front and center, flanked by a flying blonde in white, a spiked-hair bruiser, a long-haired blonde in gray, and a purple-skinned figure at the edge — all looming before a large, brooding portrait of an older man who seems to cast a long shadow over them. The tagline says it all: "strangers bound by fate and a father they never knew." Mahmud A. Asrar's cover art captures the team's uneasy mix of power and unresolved tension, with Ron Riley's colors giving the lineup a polished, energetic feel that makes this issue hard to pass up.