Stormwatch: Team Achilles #5

Stormwatch: Team Achilles #5 brings the WildStorm mature-readers series to a tense moment, with a cover by Whilce Portacio and Scott Williams that crowds the frame with four hard-edged operatives — a cloaked central figure firing searing red laser beams from their eyes commands immediate attention, flanked by a long-haired man in yellow, a silver-skinned woman, and a stoic face looming from the foreground shadows. Micah Ian Wright's "Enemy Manipulation" promises exactly the kind of morally complicated intrigue this team specializes in, and the cover's cool palette punctuated by those stark crimson beams sets a mood that's equal parts espionage thriller and superhuman threat.