Stormwatch: P.H.D. #1

The WildStorm universe's World Storm initiative kicks off here with Stormwatch: Post Human Division #1, written by Christos Gage with cover art by Doug Mahnke. The cover assembles a diverse team of six — a blonde woman in a gray bodysuit, a bald man in shades, a gruff older man with a mustache, a dark-haired woman in black leather, a red-haired woman in a jacket, and a broad-shouldered man in a police uniform standing front and center — projecting the feel of a gritty, street-level response unit rather than a squad of untouchable gods. If you're looking for where WildStorm's 2007 reinvention begins, this is a confident, compelling starting point.