Lady Pendragon #1

Lady Pendragon strides onto the Image Comics stage in 1999 with this striking first issue of "Dragon Blade," its cover presenting the dark-armored heroine front and center — black cape billowing, sword tip planted firmly at her feet, her gaze cool and utterly unintimidated. Behind her, an alien landscape of eroded rock formations stretches beneath a vivid planetary sky, with a sleek spacecraft hovering in the distance, hinting at a world where Arthurian myth and science fiction intertwine. The cover art, a collaboration between Joe Jusko, Dorian Cleavenger, and John Stinsman with inks by Jusko, Cleavenger, and Marlo Alquiza, delivers a rich, painted quality that makes this opener a genuinely compelling introduction to the series.