2020 Visions #4

Issue four of DC Vertigo's twelve-part anthology series brings Jamie Delano and Warren Pleece's "La Tormenta" to its opening chapter, set against a sun-bleached, photorealistic cityscape that feels somewhere between Miami vice and near-future noir. John Eder's cover — both penciled and inked by him — stages a tense scene behind yellow crime-scene tape: two suited men crouch beside a car to examine something draped in white cloth, while a confident woman in a white blazer and dark sunglasses stands coolly in the foreground, palm trees and Art Deco architecture rising behind her. The mood is slick and a little dangerous, exactly the kind of stylish, mature-readers tension Vertigo was delivering so well in 1997.