Ocean #6

The finale of Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse's six-issue sci-fi series arrives with a cover by Michael Golden that makes an immediate impression: a glowing-eyed, fanged figure fills the foreground, bathed in crackling orange lightning, while the Earth itself looms above his head like a crown held at the edge of destruction. It's a striking, almost mythic image — one figure, one planet, the stakes implied without a word of dialogue needed. A compelling close to one of WildStorm's more ambitious 2005 limited series.