Animal Man #53

Part three of Jamie Delano and Steve Pugh's "Flesh and Blood" arc arrives with a Brian Bolland cover that stops you cold: a massive, hyper-detailed dragonfly looms over a frightened young blonde girl who calls out "Daddy?" — the juxtaposition of childhood vulnerability against the insect's alien anatomy is quietly unsettling. Bolland's linework renders every vein in those translucent wings and every segment of the creature's thorax with almost scientific precision, making the mundane world below feel very small indeed. "Pondlife" promises that the natural world in this corner of DC's 1992 mature-readers line remains as strange and threatening as ever.