Spider-Man 2099 #5

Spider-Man 2099 dives headlong into danger on this March 1993 cover, with the sleek blue-and-red future Spider-Man leaping through a burst of purple energy while a squad of armed, masked soldiers below fires weapons blazing with orange flame — and a speech bubble warns him, "You've made fools of the Public Eye for the last time, wall-crawler!" Rick Leonardi's pencils and Al Williamson's inks give the scene a kinetic, almost reckless energy, capturing a wall-crawler outnumbered but clearly not outmatched. "Blood Oath" promises plenty of high-stakes tension in Peter David's futuristic reimagining of the Spider-Man mythos.