Exiles #2

The dimension-hopping team at the heart of Marvel's multiverse saga takes center stage in Exiles #2 (2001), subtitled "The Sacrifice." Mike McKone's cover pencils (inked by Mark McKenna) pack the composition with the full roster — a winged figure, a cloaked skull-faced character, a central woman in a gold-and-white costume, a blue-skinned Nightcrawler-like figure, and several other mutant heroes pressed together in an urgent, chain-bound struggle that suggests the stakes are already sky-high by issue two. Writer Judd Winick and artist Mike McKone are crafting a team book with real tension, and this densely layered cover promises that "Sins of the Father" will put these interdimensional Exiles through their paces.