Jack Staff #2

Paul Grist's sharp, energetic linework sets the tone perfectly for this second issue of Jack Staff's Image run, billed as "Britain's Greatest Hero!" The cover drops us into a tense standoff: a massive, snarling brute looms behind Jack Staff himself — Union Jack–suited, staff in hand — who's calmly urging that they can "still talk this over," even as the cover copy announces that Hurricane, described as the most destructive weapon ever developed by the British Army, has just hit Castletown. It's a terrific blend of humor and genuine threat that captures exactly what makes this series such a distinctive corner of 2003 superhero comics.