Paradigm #8

Issue #8 of Image's Paradigm presents a striking, design-forward cover by Jeremy Haun that feels almost like classified evidence: a blood-splattered composition notebook relabeled as "The Ministry Composition," stamped with a Ministry seal and assigned to Agent Nicholas Pryde, looms over a moody, shadowy figure hunched at a desk. The layered imagery — agent numbers, institutional stamps, and those unsettling crimson spatters — quietly suggests a world of clandestine operations and bureaucratic menace. Matthew Cashel and the Haun brothers bring a distinctly atmospheric sensibility to this 2003 series that sets it apart from the superhero mainstream.