Icon #5

The cover of Icon #5 from DC/Milestone's 1993 lineup throws down the gauntlet with a bold "Blood Syndicate vs. Icon" clash, rendered in M. D. Bright's pencils and Art Nichols' inks. A red-caped figure takes center stage, fists raised and ready, while a wild crowd of super-powered combatants — including a snarling lion-man, a massive armored bruiser, a flying figure in purple, and a blue-clad street-level fighter — press in from every angle. Writer Dwayne McDuffie's Milestone universe is firing on all cylinders here, and that cheeky story title, "May We Bang You?", signals exactly the kind of sharp wit that made this line of comics stand apart in 1993.