Animal Man #57

This DC/Vertigo issue from 1993 presents one of the most quietly unsettling covers in the series: a family — a teenager in a red cap, a small girl clutching a stuffed animal, and a young man pushing a shopping cart — moves through a supermarket meat counter while rows of flayed carcasses hang in grim abundance overhead and a butcher looks on from behind the glass. The visual tension between the ordinary domestic scene and the raw, visceral display behind it is pure Brian Bolland, whose cover pencils and inks here are as precise and disquieting as ever. Writer Jamie Delano and artist Steve Pugh continue their run on this Vertigo-era title, which has always found unsettling poetry in the relationship between humanity and the animal world.