Red Menace #3

The stark, newspaper-style cover of this WildStorm six-parter tells a chilling story all on its own: mug-shot panels of Steve "Eagle" Tremaine frame a street scene below where protesters brandish signs reading "Traitors Must Die for Their Crimes" and "Eagle Gone Red!" while schoolchildren shout their denunciations of their former hero. Jerry Ordway's striking black-and-white cover art — bold red lettering and all — captures the suffocating paranoia of the Red Scare era with real dramatic weight. Written by Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo, and Adam Brody, with inks by Ordway himself, this third chapter of "Broken Eagle" promises a story about a hero ground down by an unforgiving public moment.