Sidekick #8

Tom Mandrake's cover for Sidekick #8 is genuinely unsettling in the best way — a face contorted in anguish or rage fills the frame, viewed as though through a shattered pane of glass, the fracture lines radiating outward like a spider's web across the figure's features. The fragmented, distorted perspective gives the image a psychological edge that feels right at home in J. Michael Straczynski's dark superhero deconstruction. With HiFi's cool blue palette heightening the dread, "The Calm Before the Storm" promises anything but calm on the pages within.