One of the things that’s starting to pop up in issues of Heavy Metal are mentions of plague. Or that may be because I’m writing this during the end of the second year and it’s what everyone is talking about. At any rate, the way these creatures are depicted reminds me of depictions of how sickness spreads.

(Heavy Metal #304 2021 – Page 42 Funeral by Balcarce, Lopez, Jok, Jame and Calvo)