Shaman's Tears #5

Mike Grell's Shaman's Tears hits its fifth issue with a cover that confidently frames two very different worlds colliding: a fierce Native American warrior with long flowing hair, knife in hand and feathered garments, stands back-to-back with a leather-jacketed man brandishing a pistol against a twilight city skyline. Snarling, monstrous creatures crowd the lower corners of the composition, suggesting the tension between ancient spiritual forces and modern urban danger that defines this series. Grell both writes and draws the cover himself, delivering the kind of sharply rendered, atmospheric work that made this early Image title stand out in 1995.