2000 AD Covers Uncovered: Frightful Fauna Attacks In Luke Horsman’s Latest Enemy Earth Cover For Prog 2329
24th April 2023
Every week, 2000 AD brings you the galaxy’s greatest artwork and 2000 AD Covers Uncovered takes you behind-the-scenes with the headline artists responsible for our top cover art – join bloggers Richard Bruton and Pete Wells as they uncover the greatest covers from 2000 AD!
This week, amongst all the other Ghafflebette thrills, we have the latest instalment of Cavan Scott and Luke Horsman’s Enemy Earth: Book 2, with all the fearful fauna and flora out to transform humanity. Against it all, just trying desperately to stay alive, two kids searching for sanctuary in the latest serial to make the jump from the 2000 AD Regened Progs to a full series in the Prog. It’s dark, it’s scary, it’s the entire planet out to get you!
So, let’s see Luke Horsman’s latest cover and what went into putting it all together…
LUKE HORSMAN: For this cover, Tharg the Mighty tasked me with a design involving the mutant horde breaking through a security fence to our unlucky protagonists.
I worked up a loose layout for approval.
Once approved, I moved on to the usual black inks and grey tone inks so I can plan my colour depths.
I initially started to work the cover up in full technicolour, but decided it wasn’t quite working for me as a piece.
So for the final piece, to make it a bit more B-Movie’ish and “designed”, I dropped back the colours to a 2 tone style and added a few paper stock blending layers to bring it all together.
Job done.
Job done indeed. That’s a stunning cover to be sure, full of all the horrors to be found in Enemy Earth.
Our thanks to Luke for sending it all over and letting you see what went into making the cover. You can find 2000 AD Prog 2329 wherever the Galaxy’s Greatest is sold from April 26th, including the 2000 AD web shop.
As for previous Covers Uncovered from Luke, he talks Enemy Earth covers for Prog 2303 and Prog 2307, and we’ve interviewed him three times… here for an interview with Cavan and Luke about the very first Enemy Earth in the 2000 AD Regened Prog 2256 and here for a chat with them both for the first series of Enemy Earth that began in Prog 2301. And finally, there’s an interview here with Luke and writer Mike Carroll about another Regened strip, Action Pact, that was in Prog 2220.