Stormwatch: Team Achilles #3

Stormwatch: Team Achilles #3 brings Wildstorm's gritty black-ops team front and center in this November 2002 issue, with a cover by Whilce Portacio and Scott Williams that plunges you straight into the chaos — two heavily armed operatives locked in a desperate struggle against a massive, yellow-green creature whose enormous hands engulf them from below. The raw physicality of the composition, with the fighters tangled together mid-combat against that looming threat, sets a fittingly intense tone for a story titled "March or Die!" Writer Micah Ian Wright and artist Portacio deliver a series that takes superhuman conflict seriously, and this cover makes clear the team earns every inch of ground.