G.I. Joe: Frontline #4

A masked Cobra operative lunges forward with a blade in hand, a towering, anguished face looming in blue-toned shadow behind him — it's a striking composition from cover artist David Michael Beck that radiates tension and menace. This 2003 Image Comics series brought Larry Hama back to the G.I. Joe universe he knows so well, with Dan Jurgens on interior art duties for "The Mission That Never Was Part 4: Endgame." Front Line earned its subtitle, and this fourth chapter looks every bit the confrontational finale the story has been building toward.