Spawn #230

Todd McFarlane's cover for this April 2013 issue is a striking composition — Spawn's enormous crimson cape billows dramatically against a glowing full moon, enveloping a young girl in a pink jacket who reaches outward from within its folds. Bats scatter across the red sky as the hellspawn looms protectively (or perhaps ominously) above a rocky precipice, with FCO Plascencia's colors giving the whole scene a vivid, blood-soaked intensity. It's a genuinely arresting image from a series that, 230 issues in, still knows how to command your attention.