Doom Patrol #25

This August 1989 issue of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run opens with a Richard Case cover that is genuinely unsettling — a wide-eyed, fanged figure screams in anguish while disembodied eyes, teeth, and hands crowd in from a fragmented, collage-like background alongside a glowing lightbulb and a crossword puzzle clipping. The surreal, fractured imagery feels perfectly calibrated to the story's title, "Imaginary Friends," hinting at a world where the boundary between the real and the deeply strange has come apart at the seams. Morrison, Braithwaite, and their collaborators were clearly pushing DC's "New Format" banner to its limits here.