Excalibur #92

The cover of this 1995 Excalibur issue, penciled by Terry Dodson and inked by Tom Simmons, pulls no punches: a tortured, steel-skinned Colossus towers over a prone, wide-eyed figure cowering below him, his armored fists raised and his expression caught somewhere between rage and anguish. The tagline "Colossus Agonistes" tells you everything about the emotional stakes on display here. Warren Ellis was deep into his celebrated Excalibur run, and this issue promises the kind of psychologically charged superhero storytelling that made that era of the series so compelling.