New Challengers #5

Part of DC's 2018 "New Age of Heroes" initiative and tied into the Dark Nights: Metal event, this fifth issue of New Challengers arrives with real urgency — the cover declares the team is "Out of Time!" Center stage is a woman in the team's signature purple-and-gold insignia gear, snarling with fierce determination as she thrusts her marked forearm toward the viewer. Behind her, four teammates — expressions ranging from alarm to grim resolve — stand against a fiery, smoke-filled backdrop that leaves little doubt the stakes are high. V Ken Marion's pencils and Sandu Florea's inks deliver a cover full of kinetic tension that makes this penultimate chapter hard to pass up.