Venom #13

Patterns Part 3" arrives in this 2004 Marvel series with a cover by Mike Deodato Jr. that layers dread beautifully: a bearded, bespectacled man works intently at a lit desk, unaware that a massive, drooling symbiote looms directly above him in the shadows — tongue curling downward like a question he hasn't thought to ask. A small red symbiote figure crouches in the upper corner, adding another layer of menace to the scene. Daniel Way's story, illustrated by Francisco Herrera and Sean Galloway, promises the kind of creeping tension this cover so effectively telegraphs.