Stormwatch: Team Achilles #6

Two armed figures stand framed by a dark cave or tunnel entrance, caught in the midst of a chaotic, fire-swept battlefield where tanks and crowds stretch across a scorched orange horizon — it's a striking compositional contrast between the intimate foreground struggle and the vast carnage beyond. Whilce Portacio's cover pencils, inked by Scott Williams, give the scene a raw, kinetic energy that suits a series built around a black-ops UN strike team operating in the world's most dangerous situations. With Micah Ian Wright's story titled "Fire from Above," this February 2003 issue of Stormwatch: Team Achilles promises the kind of grounded, high-stakes tension that set this series apart from more conventional superhero fare.