The Authority #25

Part three of "Transfer of Power" arrives in this 2001 WildStorm issue, and the cover by Dustin Nguyen and Richard Friend makes the stakes immediately clear: a bald, red-eyed figure in a green coat dominates the scene, delivering a brutal kick while glowing energy crackles from his fists, as a winged armored woman swoops in from above and a dark-clad fighter wades into the chaos below. Bodies and combatants tumble across the foreground against a backdrop of towering alien spires, conveying a team under serious pressure. Tom Peyer and Nguyen bring a kinetic intensity to this penultimate chapter that pulls you straight into the next issue.