Excalibur #69

A stormy yellow-and-black energy field crackles behind a strikingly costumed woman — goggled, feather-crowned, and clad in magenta — who dominates the foreground of this September 1993 issue from Marvel's Britain-based super-team title. Below her, two smaller figures (one flame-haired, one dark and pointed-eared) are caught in the chaos, lending the cover a real sense of confrontation and scale. Michael Golden's pencils and inks bring a sharp, kinetic confidence to the whole composition, and the subtitle "A Question of Conscience" promises that the second chapter of the "Exile" arc wrestles with something weightier than a simple brawl.