The Authority #5

The skies above the clouds are anything but peaceful in The Authority #5 — Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary's cover depicts two armored, Union Jack-emblazoned riders astride sleek, needle-nosed shiftships, surrounded by a swarm of similar craft stretching into the distance. It's a breathtaking aerial spectacle that makes the scale of the conflict feel genuinely vast. Warren Ellis and Hitch were already stretching the boundaries of superhero storytelling in 1999, and this "Shiftships" chapter looks like a prime example of that ambition in full flight.