A comic cover for Mr. Monster, showing a masked, red-eyed hero in a garish pink-and-blue costume with a skull emblem on his chest, dual pistols raised as he strides over a pile of defeated, half-dressed monsters and creatures. The lettering is rendered in a dripping, horror-movie font that matches the pulpy B-movie energy of the scene below it, and the composition, hero triumphant, victims sprawled underfoot, one green reptilian creature still snarling from the pile, follows the same trophy-pose logic Bisley used across a lot of his cover work for characters like Lobo. Mr. Monster is a creator-owned horror-adventure character with roots outside the mainstream superhero publishers, closer in spirit to pulp monster-hunter comics than to anything DC or Marvel were producing at the time, and Bisley's cover leans into that pulp horror-comedy tone rather than playing it straight. The bright, almost lurid color scheme, hot pink and cyan against a sickly yellow background, gives the piece a garish energy that suits a character whose whole premise is gleeful, over-the-top monster-hunting rather than somber heroics. It's a good example of Bisley working outside his best-known franchises; alongside his signature runs on Sláine, Judge Dredd and Lobo, and his ongoing horror collaborations with Glenn Danzig's Verotik imprint since 1994, he's picked up cover and illustration work across a wide range of smaller, creator-owned properties throughout his career, and pieces like this Mr. Monster cover show the same painted, muscular, slightly cartoonish style he brought to his biggest titles applied just as confidently to a much more obscure one.
Mr Monster
