The Ravagers #2

This New 52 series pits the young, desperate Ravagers against a genuinely imposing threat, and issue #2 wastes no time raising the stakes. Ian Churchill's cover wraps five figures — a red-haired Fairchild, a gun-wielding teammate, a glowing-fisted young man, a massive hulking bruiser, and the looming blue-skinned Shadow Walker — in crackling tendrils of energy that convey both danger and grim determination. The cover's bold promise that "Fairchild is the only hope against Shadow Walker" sets up a tense, team-under-pressure dynamic that writer Howard Mackie and Tom DeFalco's "Shadows of the Past" looks ready to deliver on.