The Red Wing

Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra’s The Red Wing (Image, 2011–present) is a taut, four-issue miniseries that reimagines time travel as a high-stakes military conflict, where pilots battle across centuries in a war for the future. Hickman’s dense, speculative plotting and Pitarra’s kinetic, expressive art create a visually explosive and intellectually rigorous take on temporal warfare. Though brief, the series stands as a sharp, early showcase of Hickman’s signature world-building and Pitarra’s dynamic storytelling, cementing its place as a cult favorite in Image’s creator-owned catalog.