Animal Man #63

Part three of "Tooth and Claw" arrives with one of the most unsettling images of the DC/Vertigo 1993 lineup: a massive deep-sea anglerfish — all needle teeth, spiny fins, and cold predatory eye — looming over an idyllic small-town landscape of rolling hills and autumn trees, as if the natural world's most primordial hunger has come to the surface. Brian Bolland's cover rendering is meticulous and genuinely eerie, the fish's gaping maw dominating the sky with a quiet menace that feels more disturbing than any superhero battle. With Jamie Delano writing and Steve Pugh on interior art, this Vertigo chapter of Animal Man keeps its focus firmly on nature as something vast and indifferent.