Stormwatch: Team Achilles #17

Against a fiery red-and-gold American flag backdrop, Lady Justice looms in dark silhouette — scales in hand, glowing red-eyed — as a brutal, chaotic brawl erupts at her feet among a group of armed combatants that includes a blue-skinned figure, a heavily built brute, and several gun-toting soldiers. The title "The Fires of Patriotism" and this striking cover by Jason Pearson say plenty about the themes of justice, violence, and national identity that Stormwatch: Team Achilles was never shy about exploring. Writer Micah Ian Wright and artists C. P. Smith and Eric Nguyen deliver another mature-readers chapter in this WildStorm series that kept asking hard questions about power and accountability.