The Foot Soldiers #5

The cover of this fifth installment of "Arch-Enemies" presents a striking image of a costumed figure tangled and suspended in a web of taut wires, their spiked green outfit suggesting both danger and helplessness — perfectly capturing the series' tagline: "When all the heroes are gone, who will fill their shoes?" Phil Hester's cover work is clean and expressive, conveying a real sense of tension without a single word of story needed. With Jim Krueger's writing and the artistic team of Hester and Michael Avon Oeming bringing this 1998 Image series to its penultimate chapter, The Foot Soldiers continues to ask some genuinely compelling questions about heroism in a world that's moved on.