UltraForce #5

Warren Ellis and Ian Edginton kick off "Smoke and Bone" — a three-part story — with this striking Malibu/Marvel Ultraverse entry, featuring cover art penciled by Darick Robertson and inked by George Pérez. The cover pulls you right into the action: a suited figure falls backward through a beam of light while an assembled group of Ultraforce members — including a red-haired woman in gold and blue, an armored figure, and others crowding the frame — loom over him with unmistakable intensity. It's a tense, kinetic composition that sets an appropriately urgent tone for part one of three.