Mars Attacks #2

IDW's Mars Attacks #2 delivers an image that perfectly captures the series' gleeful menace: a massive Martian invader looms against the void of space, its clawed mechanical hands clutching a battered, glowing Earth while a swarm of flying saucers streaks toward the planet's surface. The creature's wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression manages to be both grotesque and darkly comic, hovering over its prize like a collector admiring a bauble. With John Layman writing and John McCrea's detailed linework bringing the extraterrestrial chaos to life, this 2012 issue promises the kind of pulpy, irreverent sci-fi carnage the Mars Attacks name was made for.