Gen 13 #27

This WildStorm issue from 2009 announces its energy right on the cover, where a colorful figure — decked out in a pink-to-yellow ombre jacket, yellow shorts, and checkered skate shoes — pulls off an inverted mid-air trick, skateboard spinning overhead and a chain bracelet flying loose. The dynamic, upside-down composition by cover artist Mike Huddleston perfectly suits the story's title, "Teenage Wasteland, Part Seven: Skate... Or Die!!!", with a chain-link fence and skate ramps grounding the scene in street-level style. Also included is Chapter 3 of the Tao backup feature by Christos Gage and John Paul Leon, making this a genuinely packed installment of Gen 13.