Free Agents #5

Two imposing figures face each other in stark black and white, while between them a honeycomb of six vivid orange panels spotlights the diverse faces of their teammates — a striking visual that immediately signals the ensemble stakes at the heart of this series. Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza continue their collaboration on this Image title, with Stephen Mooney's cover design doing elegant double duty: the monochrome framing pulls focus to those colorful character portraits, suggesting a team whose fates may hang in the balance. If you've been following the Free Agents run, issue #5 looks like exactly the kind of mid-series chapter where the pieces are all on the board and things are about to get complicated.