10 freaky variant covers from DC's massive Knight Terrors drop
DC's upcoming Knight Terrors event is set to dominate the publisher's output throughout July and August. It's a huge, cross-title affair that sees many of the DC universe's heroes and villains pulled into the shadowy Nightmare Realm, a place where they must face their greatest fears thanks to new villain Insomnia. Along the way they'll also encounter Boston Brand - AKA Deadman - who is said to play a major part in the story.
It's gonna be big, then. How big? Very. In August's DC solicitations the company announced a massive 115 different cover variants for the 22 different books that are coming out as part of Knight Terrors. Together, they make up an undeniably impressive body of horror and fantasy-themed work from some of comics' best artists.
We featured all of the regular covers in the August solicitations, so here are 10 of our favorite variants from the new event, featuring creepy cars, some very dubious looking mushrooms, hungry pigs, and skeletons - a lot of skeletons.
On Caspar Wijngaard's open-to-order variant, a pale-faced Batman gins manically as a swarm of bats flies out at the reader. We know from solicitations that the Knight Terrors story involves a "Nightmare League" - so could this be one of them, rather than our own beloved Bruce?
That same evil Batman also features on James Stokoe's colorful 1:25 variant cover for the concluding issue of the Knight Terrors: Batman spinoff, where he's driving a pretty twisted take on the Batmobile.
Kyle Hotz's open-to-order variant is a biomechanical monstrosity in striking monochrome, against a blood red backdrop. There's an easy-to-miss cameo from Batman at the top, too.
While less horrifying than the other pieces on this list, Jenny Frison's open-to-order variant for
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