Hawk and Dove #23

The bold tagline "Input: Action — Output: Death!" sets an urgent tone for this April 1991 entry in DC's Hawk and Dove series, written by Barbara and Karl Kesel with art by Greg Guler and Scott Hanna. The cover — penciled by Guler and inked by Karl Kesel — erupts with energy as the red-caped Hawk and white-costumed Dove charge forward into a multi-opponent brawl, surrounded by a tech-armored figure, a green-goggled fighter, a blue-suited cyborg-style combatant, and a purple-clad adversary taking a direct energy blast. With five distinct combatants crowding the frame against a circuit-board-patterned background, this issue promises the kind of chaotic, layered conflict that made this era of the title so much fun.