Savage Dragon #189

A lone, powerfully built green-skinned figure in an orange costume crouches in a defensive stance at the bottom of the cover, facing down a looming crowd of silhouetted legs and boots above — the visual tension says everything about the odds Dragon is up against in issue #189. Erik Larsen's stark, high-contrast composition uses a dramatic overhead perspective to make the threat feel genuinely overwhelming, with Nikos Koutsis's color work making Dragon's green-and-orange design pop against the clean white background. "Angel Fueled Quake!" promises the kind of visceral, against-all-comers action that has kept this long-running Image series going strong in 2013.