Elephantmen #72

The haunting question "What Made This Monster?" frames a cover that pulls you deep into a swirling, visceral collage of grotesque hybrid figures — tusked elephant-like skulls, tentacled forms, and distorted humanoid faces all merging in a palette of deep crimson and pale flesh tones. Starkings and Harding deliver a genuinely unsettling piece of painted horror that captures the series' ongoing meditation on the nature of its engineered, tormented creations. This 2016 Image Comics entry is a striking reminder of just how far Elephantmen pushes the boundaries of what a science-fiction anthology can look and feel like.