Time Before Time #8

Declan Shalvey's cover for Time Before Time #8 sets a quietly unsettling tone, depicting a lone figure in a long coat standing face-to-face with a towering, crane-necked machine, while a second smaller figure with a bow stands beside a circular target in the distant background. The cool blue-and-grey palette gives the whole composition a spare, melancholy weight that feels right at home in Image's sci-fi lineup. Shalvey's linework — doing triple duty as penciller, inker, and colorist — delivers a striking contrast between human fragility and imposing mechanical scale.