The Outsiders #34

Philip Tan's cover for Outsiders #34 delivers an arresting image: a powerfully built, bare-chested figure crackling with crimson energy in his raised fist lifts and overpowers a gold-helmeted opponent clad in a white cape, while a smoke-filled battlefield stretches ominously in the background. The cover's tagline — "Clash of the Titans!" — sets the tone perfectly for a story titled "Of Friends and Enemies," hinting at a confrontation with real personal stakes. Dan DiDio and Keith Giffen's 2011 run on this title continues to keep the Outsiders in genuinely unpredictable territory.