The Foot Soldiers #4

The tagline asks it perfectly: "When all the heroes are gone, who will fill their shoes?" This fourth chapter of the "Arch-Enemies" arc from Image's 1998 series drops right into the chaos, with Michael Avon Oeming's cover showing the Foot Soldiers — a young woman in a teal suit, a caped figure, and a fierce brawler — scattered mid-battle against a nightmarish tangle of wicker-and-bone constructs armed with weapons and grinning skull faces. Jim Krueger's writing and Phil Hester's interior art bring a world where street-level heroes shoulder the weight left behind by the legends who came before them.