Ocean #4

Four issues into Warren Ellis's six-part WildStorm science fiction series, Ocean #4 delivers a cover by Michael Golden that is quietly unsettling in the best way. A man's face stares out from the lower half of the image, calm and resolute, while a dense cascade of glowing circuit-diagram data streams and schematics radiates outward from his head in deep reds and purples — the visual suggestion of a mind under extraordinary pressure. With interior art by Chris Sprouse, inks by Karl Story, and colors by Randy Mayor, this 2005 series continues to show why it earned a spot in WildStorm's Signature imprint.