Black Orchid #20

Dave McKean's photographic-painterly cover for this April 1995 DC Vertigo issue is a quietly hypnotic still life — a luminous, vein-traced seedpod or flower bud glows amber and gold against layered purples and lush greens, suggesting something organic caught between bloom and decay. The image carries the eerie, nature-suffused atmosphere you'd expect from Black Orchid, fitting perfectly for "A Twisted Season Part Three of Six." With Dick Foreman writing and Rebecca Guay on interiors, this mid-arc chapter promises the same lush, unsettling sensibility the series had been cultivating throughout 1995.