Spawn #280

Jason Shawn Alexander's painted cover for Spawn #280 is genuinely unsettling in the best way — a large, somber face dominates the foreground against a warm, textured background of scrawled, childlike drawings, while Spawn's dark, cloaked figure looms in the lower right, his pale skull-like face partially turned toward us. This fifth chapter of "Dark Horror" signals that the arc is pushing into deeply atmospheric territory, blending innocence and dread in a single haunting image. A strong entry in one of Image's longest-running series.