Gemini Blood #9

Issue nine of DC's Helix imprint series wraps up the "Loothka Bi-Modal" two-parter with a cover by Tommy Lee Edwards — and it's a gripping one. The image plunges viewers into a chaotic, street-level brawl, with a cloaked figure leaping through the chaos while armed soldiers and fallen bodies crowd the rubble-strewn scene below. Christopher Hinz's "Monster Bi-Modal" storyline looks to deliver the kind of gritty, visceral sci-fi tension that made Helix one of 1997's most intriguing corners of comics.