The Authority #2

This French Urban Comics collection brings together the boundary-pushing work of writers Mark Millar and Tom Peyer alongside artists Frank Quitely and Dustin Nguyen for the second volume of The Authority. Frank Quitely's cover — signed by Quitely, Trevor Scott, and Baron — presents a striking downward perspective of five figures arranged in a circle above the Earth, with crackling lightning connecting them: a winged hero in green, a powerful white-clad figure, a red-haired woman in purple, a trench-coated gunman, and a silver-suited central figure lying at the focal point of the composition. The planetary backdrop and electric energy radiating between the team make for a genuinely arresting image that captures the grand, world-spanning ambition this series is known for.