Outlaws #5

Part of DC's eight-issue miniseries reimagining Robin Hood, Outlaws #5 subtitle "The Legend of the Man Called Hood!" arrives at a high-stakes moment captured vividly on Luke McDonnell's cover: a shirtless Hood draws his longbow with intense focus while a crowd of onlookers surrounds him and a richly robed, red-haired noble gestures forcefully from an elevated platform above. Titled "The Game," this 1992 issue promises the tension of a public contest or trial-by-skill, with every eye in the crowd — common folk and nobility alike — fixed on the outcome. Michael Jan Friedman and McDonnell's grounded, gritty take on the outlaw legend continues to feel refreshingly human and immediate.