Savage Dragon #58

This February 1999 Image Comics issue drops readers right into the aftermath of brutal punishment — the battered, battle-worn green form of Savage Dragon sprawls across the foreground, teeth bared and barely holding on, while two dark silhouetted figures loom menacingly through the explosive chaos and debris behind him. Erik Larsen's cover pencils and inks capture that gut-punch sense of a hero pushed to his absolute limits, with rubble and kinetic energy radiating in every direction. The wildly titled "Savage Dragonbert and Hitler's Brainbert" promises the kind of gleefully unhinged storytelling that made this series a standout of late-'90s independent comics.