Elephantmen #31

The second chapter of "Man and Elephantman" arrives in this 2011 installment of Richard Starkings and Axel Medellin's mature-readers series from Image. Boo Cook's cover commands immediate attention — a massive rhinoceros-human hybrid lies prone and restrained on a flat surface, studded with monitoring devices and bound by a mechanical clamp, his weary eye gazing out from beneath the single overhead light. That striking image of a powerful creature rendered helpless sets a quietly unsettling tone perfectly in tune with the arc's title, "The Burden of Tyranny.