Fury #1

Marvel's MAX imprint launched this mature-readers Nick Fury series in 2001, and Bill Sienkiewicz's painted cover immediately signals that this won't be your usual S.H.I.E.L.D. adventure — a battle-hardened, eye-patched Fury looms large, a scoped rifle filling the foreground in a haze of smoke and firelight. The loose, atmospheric brushwork gives the whole image a raw, almost hallucinatory intensity that suits the Parental Advisory label perfectly. With Garth Ennis writing and Darick Robertson on interior art, this first issue promises a grittier, unfiltered look at the man behind the eyepatch.