2000 AD Covers Uncovered: One Last Time For Enemy Earth On Luke Horsman’s Cover For Prog 2369
14th February 2024
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 it’s 2000 AD Prog 2369, featuring the finale to Book Three of Cavan Scott and Luke Horsman’s Enemy Earth – which is also the finale to the entire Enemy Earth saga. Fittingly, series artist Horsman gets the cover…
There’s always something very special about the covers that do something different with the 2000 AD logo – don’t you think?
Anyway, across three series of Enemy Earth, we’ve had a world gone mad, fauna and flora mutated and out to kill any human that’s left alive, and we’ve seen a very unusual found family come together to triumph over all the problems that this world can throw at them (and that’s a hell of a lot!)
So, one last time for Enemy Earth, here’s Luke Horsman talking about an Enemy Earth cover… and as usual it all starts with Tharg beaming his magnificence into the presence of an unworthy art droid and telling them just what he’s after for this latest cover…
LUKE HORSMAN: Starting with the rough – I was asked to produce a cover image inspired from a scene in the previous episode of Enemy Earth, with Zoe hanging upside down by Jules’ mutated tentacles.
That would be this scene…
And this is the sketch that Luke worked up for the cover…
Okay then, with the sketch all sorted and approved and art droid Horsman still shaking from being in the presence of The Mighty One, it’s time to get back to work, with Luke bringing us a great cover, complete with that customized logo…
LUKE HORSMAN: Once all was approved, I laid down the line work as usual.
LUKE HORSMAN: Next, working up the title treatment I had in mind to work into the image...
LUKE HORSMAN: Now on to layers of colour work. I wanted to frame the main aspect with some basic silhouette designs so everything popped in the right way…
LUKE HORSMAN: And finally drop the title back in…
And there you have it – a final fabulous Luke Horsman cover for Enemy Earth. You can find it on on the front of Prog 2369, in newsagents, comic shops, and from the 2000 AD web shop.
As for previous Covers Uncovered from Luke, he talks Enemy Earth covers for Prog 2303, Prog 2307, and Prog 2329. We’ve also interviewed Luke three times – here along with Cavan Scott about the very first Enemy Earth in 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, from Prog 2220.