Hellspawn #9

Ashley Wood's painterly cover for Hellspawn #9 is a genuinely unsettling piece of work — Spawn's masked face and clawed, grasping hands emerge beneath a massive, mechanically altered skull rendered in murky golds and shadow. The composition feels less like a superhero cover and more like a fever dream, which suits this darker corner of the Spawn universe perfectly. With Steve Niles writing and Wood handling art duties throughout, "Chains" promises a 2001 Image chapter steeped in atmosphere and dread.