Dylan Dog #[26]

This Swedish-language Dylan Dog album, "Den fjättrade guden" (The Chained God), presents a genuinely unsettling cover by Angelo Stano — Dylan Dog raises both hands in wide-eyed alarm as enormous, ghostly tentacled appendages loom over him from the watery teal depths, while a terrified young blonde woman cowers at his side, hand pressed to her mouth. The teal underwater atmosphere and swirling dark forms give the whole image a suffocating, Lovecraftian dread that suits Italy's beloved "nightmare investigator" perfectly. With a script by Pasquale Ruju and art by Daniele Bigliardo, this 2019 Ades Media edition brings Dylan Dog's horror sensibility to Scandinavian readers in style.