The Thing on the Doorstep #2

Rooted in Lovecraftian dread, this second issue from Image/Top Cow sets an unsettling mood right on its cover: a pale, hollow-eyed figure sits at a candlelit dinner table, a grotesque tentacled mass resting on the plate before them, while a dark, looming silhouette hovers ominously close behind. The atmosphere — rich damask wallpaper, flickering candles, a goblet casting long shadows — feels suffocatingly Gothic, as if something deeply wrong has already taken hold. Birks, Roberts, and Jones are crafting something genuinely unnerving here, and this 2026 series is shaping up to be a worthy heir to its source material's creeping, inexorable horror.