Terminal City #6

Issue six of Dean Motter and Michael Lark's nine-part Vertigo series doubles down on the retro-futurist atmosphere that makes Terminal City so distinctive. The cover by Dean Motter places a battered, determined boxer in the foreground — fists raised, face marked by the fight — while a massive dirigible glides over the city's art-deco skyline behind him, a "Science" building visible among the towers. It's a quietly striking composition that captures the series' blend of pulp grit and tomorrow-that-never-was elegance, right at the two-thirds mark of the story.