2000 AD #2314

The cover of 2000 AD #2314 stops you cold: a small, vulnerable figure — a child in a simple dress — stands alone before a colossal, decay-streaked mechanical creature, its massive claws and glowing core dwarfing her completely. Mark Harrison's painted artwork is stunning in its contrast, the soft innocence of the child clutching a luminous orb set against the rusted, dripping menace looming overhead, all under the tagline "Out of the Past." It's the kind of image that earns its silence — no chaos needed when the scale says everything.