Impulse #44

The Halloween spirit runs wild in Impulse #44, where cover pencils by Craig Rousseau and inks by Wayne Faucher deliver a perfectly timed seasonal moment: a very exasperated guardian figure clutching a massive haul of trick-or-treat candy while a speed-trail-blazing Impulse — still in costume — zooms back into frame, having clearly cleaned out what looks like every neighborhood in the hemisphere. The speech bubble says it all: "Next year, we confine your trick-or-treating to the immediate neighborhood!" It's a warm, genuinely funny cover that captures Impulse's irresistible enthusiasm and the exhausted patience of everyone around him, making this January 1999 issue a charming snapshot of why this series had such a devoted following.