The Uncanny X-Men #314

Early Frost" sets a chilling tone right from the cover, where a massive, crystalline figure — all jagged ice and crackling energy — crouches in anguish while a stern, seated figure flanked by armed soldiers looks on from the background. Lee Weeks' pencils and Joe Rubinstein's inks give the scene real weight, rendering the frozen form with striking texture against a vivid purple-and-blue gradient sky. With Scott Lobdell writing and Lee Weeks on interior art, this July 1994 issue promises the kind of tense, visually dramatic X-Men storytelling the series was delivering at full force.