Stormwatch #38

Against a backdrop of crackling lightning and steel-grey tech panels, this August 1996 Image issue brings together three striking figures: a suited, cybernetically-enhanced man holding sunglasses with quiet menace, a silver luminescent figure crackling with green energy above, and a red-haired woman in a visor surging forward wreathed in flames. Warren Ellis's run on Stormwatch was already reshaping what superhero team books could be, and this Tom Raney and Randy Elliott cover — dynamic yet composed — captures that sense of controlled tension perfectly. A fine snapshot of mid-'90s Image at its most ambitious.