Oh, Killstrike #[nn]

The cover of this 2016 BOOM! Studios trade says it all — a skull-faced, heavily armed '90s-style mercenary looms enormous over a wide-eyed, bespectacled everyman who looks like he'd rather be absolutely anywhere else. The visual contrast between Killstrike's over-the-top aggression and the ordinary guy cowering below him sets up what promises to be a wildly entertaining clash of tones and worlds. At $14.99, this collection from Bemis, Faerber, and Tumburus looks like a sharp, self-aware take on the excess of a bygone comics era.