Top 10 #5

Alan Moore's police procedural set in a city where everyone has superpowers continues with issue five, and Gene Ha and Zander Cannon's cover captures Neopolis's grittier street level with quiet unease. A robot figure in a worn white t-shirt and red knit cap crouches on a sidewalk beside a handwritten "Fresh Zap $1 Cash No Duds" sign, while a large figure looks on from the foreground — all of it set against a brick wall plastered with a cheerful "Top 10 Is Your Friend!" public-service poster featuring a superhero and two mechanical companions. The contrast between that bright civic propaganda and the street scene in front of it says everything about the world Todd Klein's lettering helps bring to life in this January 2000 installment.