Guy Gardner: Warrior #40

Issue #40 of Guy Gardner: Warrior arrives in March 1996 with a cover that makes its stakes clear right away — a wild-eyed, beastly Guy Gardner, mid-transformation and teeth bared, wields a massive alien weapon while a monstrous spiked creature lunges from the lower right, all of it swirling in dark, smoky energy. Tony Daniel's pencils and Kevin Conrad's inks give the confrontation a raw, kinetic charge that matches the cover's bold promise: "Against the one foe he cannot defeat!" Writer Beau Smith, along with artist Aaron Lopresti and inker Dan Davis, brings this turbulent chapter of Guy's Warrior era to life with plenty of attitude to spare.