Hourman #14

The cover of this May 2000 issue says it all: "Everybody Loves Hourman!" — and the scene backs that up, with DC's time-twisting android hero soaring above an adoring crowd of cheering citizens, an American flag billowing behind him, while a close-up of an anguished or ecstatic face looms large in the foreground. Rags Morales captures a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek civic pride in the image, balancing genuine superhero grandeur with a sly, sitcom-title energy. Tom Peyer's "Secrets and Lies" promises there's more going on beneath the goodwill than that enthusiastic crowd might suspect.