Black Orchid #16

Dave McKean's haunting cover for this December 1994 Vertigo entry presents Black Orchid as a fractured, painterly vision — her face rendered in cool blues and purples, fragmented as if seen through shattered glass, while dark plant forms rise beside her and a turbulent sky of deep orange and red burns behind her. The collage-like composition perfectly suits a series that has always existed at the intersection of myth, nature, and identity. With Dick Foreman writing, Rebecca Guay on interior art, and Stan Woch inking, Black Orchid #16 — "Suzy and the Splintered Lands" — promises the same lyrical, mature-readers sensibility that defines this Vertigo run.