Looney Tunes #29

Looney Tunes #29 (DC, 1997) delivers one of the more cleverly composed covers in the series, with a fuzzy, wide-eyed creature crouched on the railroad tracks while a locomotive barrels toward it, reflected dramatically in those enormous googly eyes. Cover pencils by Peter Tumminello and inks by Mike DeCarlo give the gag a wonderfully cinematic flair — all red canyon walls, a dark tunnel mouth, and impending doom rendered with gleeful cartoon precision. Inside, writer-artist Leonardo Batic leads the creative team on "Stupider by the Dozen," promising exactly the kind of anarchic Looney Tunes mayhem the cover so perfectly sets up.