Legion of Super-Heroes #2

Issue #2 of this 1989 DC series wastes no time raising the stakes, with Keith Giffen and Al Gordon's cover dropping two figures — one a hulking, armored form and the other a smaller, battered young man — through a shattered blue void filled with sparking wires and debris. The sense of freefall is immediate and visceral, the crumbling environment suggesting something has gone very wrong for the Legion. With Keith Giffen, the Bierbaums, and Al Gordon driving the series, this is 30th-century super-heroics at its most grittily compelling.