Starstruck #6

Starstruck #6 brings the wild, offbeat energy of Epic Comics' most adventurous 1986 series to a striking cover by Mike Kaluta — a vertiginous aerial composition showing three women in mid-action around a hovering green-and-blue craft, one blonde figure grappling with a small green dragon, a red-suited woman at the controls, and a third figure in a sweeping blue dress reaching upward from below, all of it overseen by a ghostly face sketched lightly in the background. The dynamic top-to-bottom layout gives the whole thing a breathless, free-falling quality that perfectly suits a book this gleefully unconventional. With Elaine Lee's writing and Kaluta's intricate linework, Starstruck remains one of the more imaginative corners of mid-eighties comics.