Orion #5

Walter Simonson's Orion #5 promises the confrontation the title has been building toward — the cover says it all with "For All the Marbles!" blazed across the bottom. Darkseid's massive, stone-cold profile looms on the left, his red eyes cold with contempt, while a battle-worn Orion faces him down on the right, red-gloved fist thrust squarely between them in open defiance. It's a raw, close-quarters composition that puts the father-son rivalry front and center, rendered with the confident linework Simonson brings to the New Gods' most personal clash.