Legion of Super-Heroes #123

Legion of the Damned!" reaches its third chapter with this January 2000 issue from Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, with art by Olivier Coipel. The cover — penciled by Coipel and inked by Lanning — pulls you right into the tension: two Legionnaires in tattered costumes sprint desperately through a shadowy doorway while a massive dark creature with glowing red eyes looms above them, and in the foreground three more figures stare out with those same unsettling crimson eyes, their expressions grim and corrupted. It's a cover that makes the title feel richly earned, and promises the kind of desperate, high-stakes struggle this creative team delivers with real flair.