The Victories #2

Michael Avon Oeming's The Victories hits its second issue with a striking watercolor cover — a figure in a green-and-yellow striped costume, hands pressed together in focused determination, set against the looming silhouette of a massive head. The cover's own copy sets the stakes: "as the ultimate hero loses his mind… it's D.D. Mau to the rescue!" Dark Horse delivered something genuinely stylish with this 2013 series, and Oeming's fluid, expressive linework gives D.D. Mau a quiet intensity that feels earned rather than announced.