Sinestro: Year of the Villain #1 — Brandon Peterson Cover (2019)

Sinestro: Year of the Villain #1 features the DC supervillain Sinestro in an intense close-up action scene. The red-skinned former Green Lantern dominates the composition, grimacing with clenched teeth as a bright energy impact strikes across his chest.

Sinestro wears his characteristic dark blue and black costume, while a massive crowd of strange masked and hooded figures surrounds him in the foreground and background. The colorful, psychedelic artwork uses vivid pink, red, orange, purple, green and blue tones, giving the cover a surreal cosmic atmosphere.

The top banner identifies the book as part of Year of the Villain, while the large stylized SINESTRO logo occupies the upper portion of the cover. The promotional text reads “ON A QUEST TO KILL THE GODS!”, highlighting Sinestro's mission in the story. The DC logo and issue number #1 appear at the top, with the creators Mark Russell, Yildiray Cinar and Hi-Fi listed at the lower left.

The issue is a Year of the Villain one-shot, written by Mark Russell, with interior art by Yildiray Cinar, inks by Julio Ferreira on specified pages, colors by Hi-Fi, and lettering by Steve Wands. The story sends Sinestro on a mission from Lex Luthor to confront the seemingly godlike Paragons, whose extraordinary ability to recover from damage makes them extremely difficult to defeat.