Thunderstrike #5

Thunderstrike fills the cover of issue #5 with an attitude perfectly tuned to 1994 — goggles, a red cap, a goatee, and that unmistakable enchanted mallet thrust right at the reader, daring you to look away. The cover copy leans into the decade's cynicism head-on: "They say heroes are dead. Wrong." — a punchy manifesto that sets the tone beautifully. Ron Frenz and Al Milgrom deliver a bold, close-up composition that makes Eric Masterson feel like exactly the street-level hero the nineties needed, with writer Tom DeFalco and the rest of the creative team ready to back it up inside with "Busted!