New Gods #6

When gods go to war against each other, the fallout is anything but subtle — Luke Ross's cover for New Gods #6 (March 1996) makes that viscerally clear, showing a raging, red-caped Orion lunging forward with a massive blue-gloved hand reaching out while a battered Lightray crackles with golden energy below him, lightning arcing across the entire image. The cover's tagline says it all: "When Gods Make War!" and Rachel Pollack's story, "Destruction of the Beast!," promises the kind of high-stakes divine conflict that makes Jack Kirby's Fourth World corner of the DC Universe so endlessly compelling. It's a genuinely charged moment between two New Gods allies turned combatants, rendered with raw energy by Ross across every inch of the composition.