The Authority #17

Frank Quitely and Trevor Scott deliver a haunting cover for this 2000 WildStorm chapter — a flooded, devastated cityscape stretches across the image, bodies scattered across submerged streets while a massive, tentacled figure looms above a fallen long-haired woman in a numbered jersey. "Earth Inferno - One of Four" signals the opening of a multi-part arc from Mark Millar, with interior art by Chris Weston, and the scale of destruction on display makes clear the stakes are nothing short of catastrophic.