Jack Kirby's Fourth World #14

John Byrne's ongoing stewardship of Kirby's cosmic mythology reaches a fever pitch with this April 1998 issue, whose cover — penciled and inked by Walter Simonson — puts Darkseid front and center in a genuinely unsettling way: mouth agape, red eyes blazing, lunging forward as energy crackles all around him while a second armored figure looms in the background. The tagline "Torn from the Source!" hints at cosmic stakes worthy of the Fourth World's grandest traditions. It's a visceral, larger-than-life image that makes a strong case for picking up "Such Dreams May Come.