Creepy #1

Dark Horse's 2009 revival of Creepy announces itself with unmistakable confidence — 48 fear-filled pages of illustrated horror headlined by Eric Powell's cover depicting two men wading through a murky swamp, frozen in terror before a massive, multi-headed hellhound creature dripping with grotesque, rotting flesh. The beast's three snarling heads — serpentine, canine, and pig-like — loom over its helpless victims against a blood-red sky, and the cover's tagline ("Where will you hide when the Hell Hound comes?") makes the mood unmistakably clear. Inside, writer Joe Harris and artist Jason Shawn Alexander kick off "The Curse, Part One," promising the kind of dread-soaked storytelling that made this anthology title a touchstone of the horror comics tradition.