Outsiders #39

Titled "What a Gorilla Wants," this October 2006 installment of Outsiders delivers a cover that earns its headline: a heavily armed gorilla wearing a red fez and draped in ammunition belts dominates the image, flanked by a woman in a black costume swinging a large weapon overhead and a pale, grey-skinned figure looming behind. Daniel Acuña's cover art crackles with fiery orange energy that gives the whole composition an urgent, chaotic charge. With Judd Winick scripting and Matthew Clark and Ron Randall on interior art, this is the kind of issue that reminds you why the Outsiders have always thrived at the wilder edges of the DC universe.