Fury Max #1

The bold orange cover by Dave Johnson says it all: a stark white silhouette of the eyepatch-wearing Nick Fury looms large, while below him a collage of Indochina war imagery unfolds — combat soldiers, warplanes, a Chinese flag, and a glamorous woman posing against what looks like a park bench, all set against a period map of the region. It's a striking, graphic-design-minded opener that immediately signals this 2012 MAX series is headed somewhere grittier and more grounded than your average Marvel title. With Garth Ennis writing and Goran Parlov on art, Fury MAX: My War Gone By promises a hard-edged, mature look at the soldier behind the legend.