Mars Attacks: First Born #2

Sam Kieth's cover for this 2014 IDW series brings the Martian menace up close and deeply unsettling — a massive, skull-faced alien glares out with bloodshot, bulging eyes beneath a grotesque, swelling cranium rendered in Kieth's unmistakably raw and textured style. The result is genuinely arresting, balancing dark, murky tones with flashes of sickly yellow and red that give the creature an almost feverish intensity. With Chris Ryall and Kieth collaborating on both story and art, Mars Attacks: First Born #2 promises a singular blend of horror and extraterrestrial mayhem.