Tom Strong #34

From America's Best Comics comes this 2005 installment of the Tom Strong series, with a cover by Chris Sprouse and Karl Story that immediately sets an adventurous desert tone. A determined figure in Tom Strong's signature red-and-black costume stands alert amid jagged, shadowy spires, wrapped in a white head scarf and armed with a holstered weapon and a blade — every detail radiating tension and readiness. Steve Moore and Paul Gulacy, with inks by Jimmy Palmiotti, bring "The Spires of Samakhara" to life in what promises to be a pulp-flavored adventure worthy of the title character's bold legacy.