Nine Volt #2

From Top Cow and Image, Nine Volt #2 (1997) brings together a striking ensemble of sci-fi muscle and attitude on its cover, penciled by Anthony Chun and inked by Jason Gorder. Front and center stands a cybernetically enhanced woman in form-fitting armor, wielding a futuristic firearm, flanked by a broad-shouldered man in a red-and-black suit and a green-skinned, leonine alien figure — all backed by looming armored heavies that fill the frame with mechanical menace. With writing by Cliff Son and Anthony Chun and a roster of talents lending their skills to the interiors, this issue delivers the kind of densely detailed, action-charged energy that defined Top Cow's ambitious output in the late '90s.