Madman Comics #2

The second issue of Dark Horse's Madman Comics arrives in 1994 bearing the story title "Deus Ex Machina," and the cover by Mike Allred and Mitch O'Connell sets the stage with wonderfully strange energy: a massive golden robotic face looms behind a theatrical green curtain while a pink-suited Madman faces off against its enormous mechanical hand. On a platform to the left, two onlookers watch as a figure in a silver suit pulls back the curtain to reveal the spectacle. It's a visually inventive, retro-futurist composition that captures exactly the kind of offbeat science-fiction charm that makes this series so appealing.