Absolute Carnage: Scream #2

Scream looms terrifyingly large on this cover, her cascading red hair and spiral-eyed symbiote face filling the frame as she ensnares a helpless civilian in her tendrils — all while monstrous symbiote creatures lurk in the shadows behind her. Cullen Bunn and artists Gerardo Sandoval, Alex Arizmendi, and colorist Erick Arciniega bring an unsettling intensity to this second chapter of the Absolute Carnage tie-in, with Sandoval's cover pencils and inks delivering a genuinely menacing portrait of one of Marvel's most underappreciated symbiote characters. If you've been following the chaos of Absolute Carnage in 2019, this issue looks like essential, creepy reading.