New Gods #5

From the team of Evanier, Cullins, and Lewis comes this 1989 installment of DC's New Gods, and the cover alone signals that something enormous is at stake. A massive skull-faced explosion dominates the image, its fiery shockwave billowing outward while two figures — one in red and white armor, the other in blue and pink with a staff and shield — are caught reeling at its base. With a story titled "Extermination!" and a cover by Paris Cullins and Scott Hanna that radiates both dread and raw cosmic energy, this is Fourth World storytelling at its most dramatic.