Terror, Inc. #2

Part two of Marvel MAX's five-issue Terror, Inc. limited series delivers the grim mercenary Terror in full, brutal form — the cover by Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic shows the patchwork antihero lunging forward with a mismatched fist raised, his decayed visage and tattered coat set against a fiery, smoke-choked backdrop of destruction. Writer David Lapham and artist Patrick Zircher, with colors by June Chung, bring a raw, mature-readers edge to this 2007 series that pulls no punches. If relentless, hard-boiled action in the Marvel MAX vein is your thing, "In a Frog's Eye" looks like exactly the right place to be.