Classics Illustrated #58

Classics Illustrated brings H. G. Wells's imaginative tale The Food of the Gods to life in this handsome 2016 reprint, No. 58 in the beloved series that has long made great literature accessible through comics. The cover painting delivers an immediately arresting image: a gigantic white rooster towers over a crumbling stone wall while a young boy clings to its back, with two alarmed figures in the background scrambling to respond to the chaos. It's a vivid, slightly unsettling snapshot of Wells's world gone wonderfully, dangerously large-scale.