The New Warriors #56

Kymaera takes center stage on this February 1995 Marvel issue, rendered with fierce intensity by cover penciler Richard Pace and inker Mark Buckingham — the blue-skinned Atlantean warrior surges forward through crashing water, claws gleaming and expression locked in fierce determination. A shadowy figure looms in the background, adding a sense of mounting threat to an already charged image. With interior work from writer Evan Skolnick and artist Patrick Zircher, this mid-run chapter of The New Warriors promises the kind of charged, character-driven action the series did so well.