Spawn #274

Spawn #274 looms with quiet menace, its Ashley Wood cover presenting the hellspawn as a shrouded silhouette bristling with an arsenal — chains, axes, guns, and blades draped from his tattered costume like a walking armory. Those piercing green eyes peer out from beneath the darkness, the only vivid color in an otherwise murky, atmospheric palette that feels more painting than comic cover. With Todd McFarlane and Szymon Kudranski steering the series in 2017, this is Image Comics at its brooding, moody best.