Moonshadow #2

Marvel's Epic Comics line billed Moonshadow as "a fairy tale for grown-ups," and this second issue from May 1985 makes that promise vivid — Jon J. Muth's painterly cover places a lone figure in a silver spacesuit gazing across a barren, rocky landscape beneath an enormous planetary body, while a smaller inset image looms overhead: a skeletal, death-faced specter draped in dark robes against a star-filled void. The contrast between that quiet, almost wistful astronaut and the haunting skull-faced presence above sets a tone that is simultaneously lyrical and unsettling, exactly the mood J. M. DeMatteis and Muth seem to be reaching for with a story titled "A Very Uncomfortable Thing.