Spawn #246

This 2014 Image Comics installment brings an uncomfortably close look at one of Spawn's most visceral covers — a grotesque, wild-haired figure fills the frame almost entirely, its pallid, monstrous face twisted in a snarl with jagged teeth bared and hollow white eyes blazing. A blood-soaked blade is lodged directly into its skull, yet the creature seems far from finished, clawed fingers raised and wild hair whipping outward. Cover artists Kudranski and McFarlane deliver something genuinely unsettling here, the kind of up-close horror image that makes Spawn stand out even at issue #246.