Forever People #3

Issue three of DC's six-part 1988 mini-series brings a genuinely unsettling cover from penciler Paris Cullins and inker Karl Kesel: a grinning, helmeted figure whose face is consumed by writhing tendrils of darkness, his wide teeth gleaming against the encroaching black. The tagline "The Descent of the Dark!" feels entirely earned when you're staring into that corrupted, otherworldly smile. J. M. DeMatteis, Cullins, and Bob Smith deliver a mid-series chapter that promises things are getting considerably darker for the Forever People.