The Legion #14

The cover of The Legion #14 says it all with chilling elegance: a massive, crumbling mechanical hand — stone-like and ancient-looking — cradles an entire glowing planet against a star-filled void, beneath the bold tagline "Computo's Conquest!" The scale and menace of that image, rendered by cover artists Olivier Coipel and Andy Lanning, make a powerful case that the threat facing the Legion in this January 2003 issue is nothing less than world-sized. Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, this is exactly the kind of high-stakes sci-fi storytelling that makes 30th-century superhero comics so compelling.