Red Tornado #3

The penultimate chapter of this 1985 DC four-part mini-series puts Red Tornado at the emotional center of a desperate moment: he stands above a crowd of fallen and frightened humans while a blonde woman reaches up to him pleading, "Please, John! Don't desert me — we may be the last two humans left to fight the Construct!" His chilling reply — "Haven't you learned by now? I am merely another machine!" — sets up a compelling tension between heroism and identity. With cover art by Carmine Infantino and Frank McLaughlin and a script from Kurt Busiek, issue three of "Eye of the Storm!" promises that the line between man and machine has rarely felt this charged.