Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #4

A barrel-chested Nick Fury — cigar clenched between his teeth, bandoliers crossed over his bare chest, grenade raised in one fist — charges forward through an explosion-filled battlefield alongside a pink-jacketed woman with a submachine gun, a white-haired figure in the background, and a blue-suited agent laying down fire at his flank. The cover teaser asks whether Sgt. Fury and his Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have stepped "out of the past," hinting at a story with some serious history behind it. Keith Pollard's pencils and Kim DeMulder's inks give the whole scene a kinetic, no-nonsense energy that fits this 1989 series perfectly.