STAR TREK: "To Walk The Night"

DC Comics Cover Art, STAR TREK Annual #4, Mr. Spock doppelganger.

This cover was a collaboration between myself and artist Jason Palmer, who provided the spectacular painted colors. As I vaguely recall, the interior story for which this illo was the cover involved an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" type of scenario. So, that's actually a duplicate Spock, not the genuine Vulcan article. I forget how the impostors were created in the actual story, but here I elected to have Spock's doppelganger painfully bursting forth from a rock-like egg (also borrowing from "Alien"). The close-up head shot which appears as a cinematic montage element has several purposes. I wanted to clarify just who it was supposed to be emerging from the egg, as well as take full advantage of a key actor's likeness. And I wanted the ambiguity of whether this was a close-up of Copy-Spock, or that of the real Spock somehow sensing this diabolical clone "birth" by psychic means.