Sleepwalker #4

Marvel's 1991 series about the dream-realm guardian continues with this fourth issue, and the cover by Rick Leonardi and Bret Blevins wastes no time setting the stage: Sleepwalker — blue-skinned, red-eyed, and caped in purple — clashes mid-air against a sword-wielding female warrior, while a bespectacled young man clutching a book watches the chaos unfold nearby. The cover tagline cheerfully promises that Bookworm is "lonely, literate, and lethal," which is about as charming a villain introduction as you could ask for. Writer Bob Budiansky and artist Rick Leonardi were clearly having a lot of fun with this title, and "You Can't Tell a Bookworm by Its Cover" sounds like exactly the kind of punchy, energetic story this dynamic cover deserves.