Stormwatch: Team Achilles #19

Few covers in 2004 Wildstorm publishing hit with quite this much quiet unease — Jason Pearson's cover for Stormwatch: Team Achilles #19 fills the frame with a hospital nursery viewed from above, row upon row of newborns in bassinet trays, each tiny face marked with bold red-and-blue war-paint stripes as they cry out in apparent distress. The image is as unsettling as it is meticulously rendered, contrasting the vulnerability of infants with unmistakable symbols of conflict. With Micah Ian Wright writing and C.P. Smith on interior art, this "Goodnight, Goodnight, The Party's Over" issue promises the kind of morally charged storytelling that made Team Achilles one of Wildstorm's most thought-provoking titles.