Dead Stories #[nn]

Mark Beyer's Dead Stories announces itself with a cover that's hard to shake — a parade of elongated, eerily expressive figures marching through a nighttime cityscape, rendered in Beyer's distinctively raw, unsettling style. The procession of misshapen, brightly colored characters — part human, part creature — shuffles along a dark urban sidewalk with a kind of grim determination that sits somewhere between dark comedy and genuine dread. Published in 1982, this one-shot is a striking showcase of Beyer's singular underground vision, where the grotesque and the mundane walk side by side.