Fear Agent #8

Tony Moore's cover for issue #8 pulls you right into the cosmic unease that defines Fear Agent — a determined figure looms over a glowing, semi-transparent display filled with swirling sci-fi data and circuitry, while surrounding monitor screens flash glimpses of alien creatures and fiery chaos against a star-flecked purple sky. The retro-futurist control panel crowding the foreground, all dials and gauges rendered in warm amber tones, gives the whole image a wonderfully pulpy 1950s-adventure-meets-deep-space-dread feel. With Rick Remender writing, Jerome Opeña on art, and Michelle Madsen's colors, this 2006 Image series continues to deliver the kind of scrappy, imaginative science fiction that rewards every page turn.