Takion #3

The cover of Takion #3 pulls no punches: the title character is depicted mid-anguish, his luminous yellow energy form literally fragmenting against a deep space backdrop of asteroids and cosmic debris, with the stark tagline "Lost… Alone… Shattered!" hammering home his dire predicament. Aaron Lopresti's pencils and Gary Martin's inks give Takion a raw, visceral energy — that glowing red impact point at his chest and the pieces tearing away from his body make this one of the more striking covers DC published in 1996. Writer Paul Kupperberg's "Demons" promises to explore just what has brought this cosmic figure to such a breaking point.