Firebreather #2

The second chapter of "Growing Pains" arrives with a cover that throws you right into the chaos — a spiky-haired teenager scrambles desperately across crumbling rooftops while an enormous, menacing dragon creature lunges overhead with its jaws wide open, its dark scaled body sweeping across the entire composition. Andy Kuhn's bold linework and Bill Crabtree's warm golden palette give the scene a kinetic, almost breathless energy that perfectly suits a series about a kid caught between two very different worlds. This 2003 Image series continues to look like one of the more imaginative takes on the teenage monster-heritage concept on shelves at the time.