Shadowpact #5

The cover of Shadowpact #5 (November 2006) tells its own wry story: a blue-skinned horned figure and a caped woman in red stand before a memorial monument reading "Grant Them Eternal Rest," its stone sculpture depicting the team's heroic forms, while a small girl and a green-cloaked figure look on — and a costumed chimpanzee crouches in the foreground insisting, "But we're NOT dead!" It's a wonderfully deadpan scene that captures the team's offbeat charm, with Steve Scott and Wayne Faucher's cover work balancing genuine pathos with a perfectly timed punchline. Bill Willingham's "One Year Later" chapter promises the kind of supernatural adventure with a sense of humor that makes Shadowpact such a distinctive corner of the DC universe.