Manhunter #5

This fifth issue of DC's 2005 Manhunter series arrives as a tie-in to the line-wide Identity Crisis event, and Jae Lee's cover makes a striking case for the book's intensity. The red-drenched composition puts Manhunter herself — in her red suit and armed with a bladed weapon — squarely in the path of a winged, feral figure lunging down from above, while the imposing green-skinned form of the Martian Manhunter looms in the foreground, clenched fist and all. Writer Marc Andreyko and artist Jesús Saiz deliver "Four Feet Under" in a series that clearly isn't afraid to place its hero in genuinely dangerous company.