A vibrant, crowd-packed illustration for a fictional rock concert poster embedded within the comic page, headlined Living Death and promising the band tonight only at Robinson Park at midnight for twenty dollars a ticket. Above the crowd, an elaborate stage and lighting rig glows gold and pink against a starry night sky, with speech balloons repeating the band's name scattered like echoing chants from the audience. In the foreground, a raucous cross-section of concertgoers, sunglasses, bandanas, wild hair in every colour from pink to green, fists raised and mouths open in mid-shout, crowds toward the viewer with the kind of chaotic energy of a real mosh pit. One figure at bottom left wears a Living Death t-shirt and holds what looks like a bottle, while another flashes devil-horn hand signs, small character touches that make the crowd feel like a real assembly of distinct individuals rather than generic filler. This is a departure from Bisley's usual sword-and-sorcery or superhero subject matter, showing his range for contemporary, almost satirical pop-culture illustration, closer in spirit to gig-poster art or magazine cover work than to his Slaine or Lobo paintings. The dense layering of faces and lighting effects still carries his signature painterly texture and love of exaggerated expression, just redirected toward the manic joy of a heavy metal show rather than mythic combat.
The concert of the Living Death
