Vanguard: Strange Visitors #2

From Image Comics' 1996 Vanguard: Strange Visitors series, issue #2 puts the massively muscled, blue-skinned Vanguard front and center — armored fists raised and ready — as a colossal, stone-like behemoth looms over him against a backdrop of churning fire and destruction. The scale contrast between the two figures is immediately striking, with the towering creature's bulk threatening to swallow the whole cover. Cover pencils by Scot Eaton and inks by Erik Larsen give the confrontation a raw, kinetic energy that makes this a memorable chapter in Gary Carlson's sci-fi superhero saga.