The Blue Beetle #19

Blue Beetle finds himself caught between two threats on Rafael Albuquerque's kinetic cover for this November 2007 issue — the armored hero in his distinctive blue-and-yellow scarab suit is sandwiched between a fierce red-haired combatant lunging from above and a dark-haired woman scrambling below, all amid a shower of debris. The tagline "This Town Just Ain't Big Enough…" sets up the tension perfectly, promising the kind of high-energy conflict that writers John Rogers and Keith Giffen deliver throughout this run. With David Baldeón on interior art, "Hard Truths" looks to be exactly the charged, character-driven chapter the title suggests.