Spawn #116

Spawn lunges straight at the viewer on this Greg Capullo and Todd McFarlane cover — tattered red cape billowing, necroplasmic chains trailing from clawed hands, those eerie green eyes cutting through the darkness of a stone-walled alley. It's a visceral, up-close image that captures everything unsettling and compelling about the character in a single composition. Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin's story "Consequences," brought to life inside by Angel Medina and a full team of inkers and colorists, promises the kind of brooding intensity that made this series a standout of 2002.