Outcasts #11

The penultimate chapter of DC's twelve-issue future-shocker series delivers a cover that means business: two imposing, trench-coated figures identified as the Satan Brothers stride forward from a place ominously labeled "Suicide Park," flanking a massive, fanged creature called Spot who looks anything but domesticated. Cam Kennedy's linework gives the scene a gritty, street-level energy — that snarling beast in the foreground, solar shades and all, makes the cover's tagline ("'Cause Spot's No Party Animal!") feel like a genuine understatement. With Wagner and Grant on the story, this 1988 entry in the Outcasts run promises the kind of darkly inventive sci-fi tension the series built its reputation on.