Dead Space #2

The second chapter of Image's Dead Space miniseries arrives with a cover that sets an unsettling, atmospheric tone — a pale, hollow-eyed figure with a single glowing lens dominates the foreground, half-submerged in shadow against a backdrop of looming industrial scaffolding bathed in sickly ochre light. Writer Antony Johnston and artist Ben Templesmith bring their distinctively moody sensibilities to this sci-fi horror series, and Templesmith's painted cover work here is quietly dread-inducing rather than loud about it. If you're following this story, issue two promises to deepen the creeping tension the series built from the start.