Impulse #65

Mercury Falling" barrels into its fourth chapter with a cover that pulls no punches: a skeletal, green-eyed figure in a sweeping purple cloak looms overhead, gripping a staff, while two heroes — a young woman crackling with yellow lightning and a grey-templed speedster in blue and white — are sent flying in a burst of electric fire. Ethan Van Sciver's pencils (inked by Wayne Faucher) give the scene real kinetic urgency, capturing a moment of genuine peril for Impulse's world in 2000. If this arc has been building toward something, this installment looks like the point where the stakes get unmistakably serious.