Black Orchid #8

Dave McKean's cover for this April 1994 Vertigo entry is a breathtaking swirl of botanically textured petals — radiating outward in a vivid spectrum from deep magenta and purple through orange, blue, and lush green — with a pale, serene face just barely emerging from the floral vortex. It perfectly captures Black Orchid's nature as a being poised between the human and the botanical, beauty and strangeness intertwined. With Dick Foreman writing, Rebecca Guay on interior art, and a story titled "Clicks and Silence Frogs and Mahogany," this issue promises the lush, dreamlike atmosphere that made Vertigo's early years so distinctive.