Black Orchid #15

Black Orchid #15 arrives from DC's Vertigo line in November 1994 with a hauntingly beautiful Dave McKean cover that sets a distinctly otherworldly tone. A dark, statuesque figure — seemingly Black Orchid herself — blazes with golden, flame-like energy erupting from her crown, set against the soaring arches of what appears to be a cathedral interior, geometric lines overlaid across the composition like a mystical diagram. With writer Dick Foreman and artist Rebecca Guay on "A Walk on the Wyrd Side," this issue promises the same eerie, atmospheric sensibility that makes this Vertigo series such a compelling corner of the 1994 DC universe.