2000 AD Covers Uncovered: Up From The Depths… It’s Luke Horsman For The Finale Of Enemy Earth On Prog 2335
12th June 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, we bid farewell to Book 2 of Enemy Earth by Cavan Scott and Luke Horsman, with Zoe and Jules finding out that even on an oil rig they’re still in a whole heap of trouble from the nasties filling their world. Luke’s delivered a stunning cover that just hints at what terrors lie beneath the surface…
Everything started for this latest Enemy Earth cover with a missive from the Mighty One… here’s Luke… ‘For this cover, Tharg the Mighty requested something akin to the classic Jaws poster.’ Given his orders from on high, Luke set to work with a quick colour rough.
After the customary wait that all art droids have to suffer while Tharg ponders, approval was handed down and Luke set to work, ending up with what he describes as ‘some suitably gloomy looking inks.’
And after the inks, time to add ‘some painterly colours with a nice limited colour scheme.’
And there you have it, another excellent cover there from Luke, and a fitting cover for the finale to Enemy Earth.
Thank you to Luke for sending that one along – you can look for his cover on the shelves (or the virtual shelves of the 2000 AD web shop) from 7 June.
For more from Luke here at 2000 AD.com, he’s talked Enemy Earth Covers Uncovered with us for Prog 2303, Prog 2307, and Prog 2329 and we’ve had the pleasure of chatting to Luke three times now. First with Cavan here about the very first Enemy Earth in 2000 AD Regened Prog 2256, here for another 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.