The Long, Hot Summer #3

The concluding chapter of Milestone's Long, Hot Summer arrives with a cover by Denys Cowan and Zina Saunders that says everything without a word of dialogue — a powerful figure in a green cape clutches a woman protectively as Dakota's Utopia Park blazes behind them, smoke billowing against a fiery sky. The tagline "The Summer Ends Here!" and the cover question — "Can mere heroes bring a city to its senses?" — give this finale a sense of real stakes, not just superhero spectacle. Writer D. G. Chichester and artist Denys Cowan close out this 1995 Milestone/DC event with a chapter titled "Ignition," and that burning skyline on the cover makes the title feel exactly right.