2000 AD #2285

This prog's cover is a genuinely unsettling collision of eras, pairing an Elizabethan-era queen — pale-faced, ruffled, and clutching a glowing skull — with a grotesque, exposed-muscle alien figure looming at her side, while a brooding dark-suited figure lurks below and a bearded courtier peers from the shadows behind. The tagline says it all: "Royal Blood — Horror Echoes Through History in Fiends of the Eastern Front," promising a story that drags supernatural dread across the centuries. It's the kind of cover that earns a second look, and then maybe a third.