2020 Visions #3

The third chapter of Jamie Delano and Frank Quitely's near-future anthology series arrives with a cover by John Eder that crackles with Cold War-era dread reimagined for a new age — a fedora-hatted figure pressing a gun toward another man in the foreground, while a city skyline bristling with enormous missiles looms ominously through the windows behind them. That collision of noir tension and apocalyptic cityscape perfectly captures the uneasy world 2020 Visions inhabits, where the coming millennium feels more like a threat than a promise. Mature-readers Vertigo at its atmospheric best, this is the kind of 1997 comics work that rewards a second look.