New Gods #21

The cover of this December 1990 issue says it all: Darkseid vs. Orion, the ultimate battle fought in the mind of the Lump — and Rick Hoberg and Willie Blyberg make the stakes feel enormous, with Orion in red lunging ferociously at a blue-suited figure amid a crackling surge of pink energy, all looming over the massive, impassive face of the Lump himself. "Like Father — Like Son!" blazes across the cover, teasing the savage father-son conflict at the heart of the story titled "Patricide." Mark Evanier, Hoberg, and Blyberg deliver a visually charged chapter of Jack Kirby's Fourth World mythology that any fan of cosmic DC drama will want on their shelf.