Jack Kirby's Fourth World #13

John Byrne's stewardship of Jack Kirby's cosmic mythology reaches issue #13 with a cover by Walter Simonson that pulls no punches — a blue-suited New God rockets through what appears to be a vast, ringed cosmic eye on a gleaming techno-sled wreathed in crackling green energy, tiny planets scattered beneath him like dust. The tagline "A Mote in a God's Eye" sets the scale perfectly: one figure, impossibly small against the churning grandeur of the Fourth World. This March 1998 issue also promises a bonus "Tales of the New Gods" backup by Walter Simonson, making it a double helping of cosmic drama.