The Authority #6

The Authority #6 brings the "Shiftships" arc to its second chapter under the WildStorm banner, with the creative team of Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, Paul Neary, and Laura DePuy firing on all cylinders. Hitch and Neary's cover is an arresting close-up of a blonde woman with glowing blue eyes, electric arcs crackling around her fingers as she holds a cigarette — cool, dangerous, and utterly in command. It's a striking 1999 portrait of quiet menace that makes this issue hard to walk past on the shelf.