Powers #12

Styled as a glossy celebrity magazine called Powers Monthly, this 2001 Image Comics issue deploys Michael Avon Oeming's cover art to brilliant effect — a brooding blond superhero known as "The Golden One," Olympia, dominates the foreground, while Retro Girl and the armored Triphammer lurk in the upper corners beneath a banner promising their "secret past exposed." The tabloid-style headlines ("Olympia Comes Clean!") and breathless copy perfectly capture Brian Michael Bendis and Oeming's gift for blending superhero spectacle with very human scandal. A genuinely clever piece of visual storytelling that sets an intriguing tone for "Groupies Part One.