2000 AD #676

A ragged, wide-eyed figure crouches in terrified desperation at the center of this unsettling cover for 2000 AD Prog 676, surrounded on all sides by looming, monstrous clawed hands reaching in from the shadows — the tagline "Down and Out in the Land of the Shadows" setting an immediately bleak and eerie tone. Richard Elson's painted cover work gives the scene a visceral, almost nightmarish texture that pulls you straight into the dread. Inside, John Wagner writes and Carlos Ezquerra illustrates Part 3 of "Necropolis," promising the kind of dark storytelling this weekly British anthology did so well in 1990.