Spread #18

Image's post-apocalyptic horror series delivers a genuinely unsettling cover for issue #18, dominated by a towering, grotesquely organic red mass coiling upward from a bleak, flooded landscape — the Spread itself rendered in visceral, writhing detail by John Bivens with coloring by Felipe Sobreiro. A tiny spherical object drifts in the overcast sky above, a small but haunting counterpoint to the biological enormity below. Justin Jordan's series continues to push the boundaries of creature horror, and this striking 2017 installment makes a powerful visual statement before you even crack the spine.