Black Orchid #5

Part one of "The Mind Fields" arc arrives in this January 1994 Vertigo series, and Dave McKean's cover makes an immediate, unsettling impression — a symmetrical, almost totemic figure assembled entirely from tangled vines, branching coral-like structures, and a real orchid bloom forms a haunting face, its glowing red eyes peering out from dense green growth. The photographic surrealism feels genuinely otherworldly, perfectly suited to a character rooted in the boundary between the human and the botanical. With Jill Thompson and Rebecca Guay sharing interior art duties, this is mature-readers Vertigo storytelling at its most visually adventurous.