Tangent Comics / The Trials of the Flash #1

Part of DC's bold 1998 Tangent Comics line — an alternate universe where familiar names mask entirely new heroes — The Trials of the Flash #1 opens with a striking image of a confident blonde woman in a purple and orange costume, her gloved hand raised against a swirling backdrop of radiant orange energy spheres. The cover art by Paul Pelletier and Andy Lanning gives her a dynamic, self-assured presence, poised as though she commands the very light around her. Writer Todd DeZago kicks things off with a story titled "Making Light of the Situation," promising a Flash unlike anything fans of the main DC universe would expect.