Kobalt #8

The cover of this January 1995 Milestone/DC release sets up a fierce collision between two of the line's heavyweights — "Hardware Versus Kobalt: No Contest!" blazes across the top, while a close-up of Kobalt's snarling, blue-masked face fills the foreground, shards of metal or glass slicing through the image with real kinetic force. M. D. Bright's cover pencils and inks give the confrontation a raw, up-close intensity that makes the tagline feel like a genuine challenge rather than an empty boast. Inside, writer John Rozum and artist Eric Battle continue the story in "Repercussions," promising plenty of fallout from whatever brought these two armored titans into each other's orbit.