Moonshadow #11

The penultimate chapter of J. M. DeMatteis and Jon J. Muth's painterly "fairy tale for grown-ups" arrives with a cover that feels genuinely unsettling: a young, tousle-haired figure aims a smoking pistol directly at the viewer, expression caught somewhere between resolve and distress, while a strip of wide, alien eyes looms overhead. Muth's cover art — rendered in his signature soft, almost watercolor-like style — gives the image an emotional weight that sets this 1987 Epic Comics series apart from nearly everything else on the stands that year. "Contradictions" promises exactly that tension, and this cover delivers it before you've turned a single page.