Gen 13 #24

Outside a "Pizza Panda" restaurant, three wide-eyed young women — one with pink hair, one dark-haired, and a blonde being grabbed — scramble in visible panic as a wild-eyed, shirtless figure seizes hold of them, while an unruffled figure in a red jacket calmly sips a drink in the background. Mike Huddleston's cover for this 2009 WildStorm issue captures the Gen 13 crew in full chaos-at-the-mall mode, perfectly suited to the "Mallrats" chapter of Scott Beatty's "Teenage Wasteland" arc. The issue also includes Cybernary: Chapter 3 by Christos Gage and Pete Woods, making it a solid double-feature read.