Savage Dragon #204

Savage Dragon #204 brings some serious street-level energy to Erik Larsen's long-running Image series, with a cover — penciled and inked by Larsen himself — that puts a determined blonde woman in a patriotic star-spangled costume dead center, throwing a punch while a green-skinned, fanged villain in yellow and green looms behind her. A young girl in a school uniform watches anxiously from the background, framing the scene with real stakes against a gritty urban backdrop. Larsen's linework crackles with kinetic force, and colorists Nikos Koutsis and Mike Toris keep everything vivid and punchy at $3.99.