Deadman #13

This is where the Vertigo Deadman series bows out, and John Watkiss's cover sends it off with haunting style — a pale, bespectacled face looms large against a deep night sky while a dark, shadowed figure below watches a brilliant, crackling burst of energy detonate over a city skyline. The collision of quiet dread above and violent light below gives the image a charged, cinematic tension that feels entirely fitting for a "Final Issue" marked "Dead End." Writer Bruce Jones and artist John Watkiss close out their mature-readers ghost story with a cover that promises no easy endings.