Negative Burn #3

Negative Burn #3 brings together an impressive roster of talent — Jim Alexander, Brian Bolland, Dean Haspiol, Frazer Irving, Paul Jenkins, and many more — under one anthology roof from Image's Desperado imprint in 2006. Tomislav Tikulin's cover sets a striking tone: a luminous, winged figure hovers above a glowing pedestal, bathed in white light against a massive, industrial iron chamber. It's a hauntingly beautiful image that captures the anthology's ambition to blend the otherworldly with the visceral, and with Phil Hester and Federico Dallocchio's "The Stone Devil" among the contents, there's plenty of compelling work waiting inside.