A two-panel horror beat rendered in sickly, mottled colour. The first panel is a tight, unflinching close-up of a wizened, big-eared face - sagging jowls, wide unblinking eyes, an expression somewhere between terror and resignation, painted with heavy stippled texture that makes the skin look almost diseased. The second panel escalates sharply: the same or a similar creature is wrenched backward, mouth torn open in a jagged scream rendered in oversized red comic lettering - AAUUVVGGHH!! - some pale attacking hand or claw visible at the edge of frame. The exclamation-mark title suggests this is played partly for grim comedy rather than straight horror, in keeping with Ukko's role throughout the Sláine saga: Pat Mills wrote him as the strip's comic-relief bard, forever narrating wildly exaggerated versions of Sláine's exploits to anyone who'll listen, and forever getting into - and dying gruesomely out of - trouble of his own that has nothing to do with the main story. Bisley's redesign of Sláine's whole cast in the late 1980s leaned into grotesque, painterly caricature for exactly these secondary figures, giving Ukko a rubbery, exaggerated face built for comic anguish as much as for gore. The two panels together work like a punchline: quiet dread, then a scream that's more slapstick than tragic, a death that the reader is fairly confident won't actually stick.
Ukko dies!!
