The Authority #3

Part three of "The Circle" arc arrives in this 1999 Wildstorm title, and Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary's cover sets the stakes in visceral fashion — the radiant, gold-and-white-armored Apollo strains upward toward a glowing halo of light while a mass of desperate, grasping hands and bodies drags at him from below. It's a striking image of a powered figure caught between transcendence and being pulled under, rendered with Hitch's signature cinematic scale. Warren Ellis's story continues to build across this four-part structure, and with Laura DePuy's warm, dramatic colors amplifying every detail, this issue is a compelling chapter in one of WildStorm's most ambitious series.