Automatic Kafka #4

Ashley Wood's striking burnt-orange cover for Automatic Kafka #4 sets the tone perfectly for this WildStorm mature-readers series — a hunched, masked figure looms large, seemingly clutching a small house in one hand while an elongated limb trails upward into negative space, the whole image rendered in Wood's signature loose, inky brushwork. The cover cheekily addresses the reader directly with the text "Congratulations! You have purchased a superhero comicbook," signaling that Joe Casey and Wood have no intention of delivering anything conventional. With "Lil Folks" as the story title, this December 2002 issue promises to keep pushing the series into genuinely strange, thought-provoking territory.