Druid #2

Marvel's 1995 supernatural series continues with this unsettling second issue, its cover by Leonardo Manco depicting a pale, elaborately adorned woman — draped in gold jewelry and dark robes — clutching what appears to be a decayed, monstrous figure emerging from a shadowy, skeletal forest. The contrast between her cold, almost regal beauty and the grotesque creature pressed against her gives the image a genuinely eerie tension. Warren Ellis's story "Mind to Meat" promises the kind of dark, mythic atmosphere that Manco's moody linework captures so well on this striking cover.