Doom Patrol #41

Simon Bisley's painted cover for issue #41 is a visceral, unsettling piece — a muscular, contorted figure dominates the foreground, its face obscured by a grinning skull mask with a lolling red tongue, while additional skull-faced figures and eerie, fragmented forms crowd the haunted background. The orange, tendril-like wisps bleeding into the blue atmosphere give the whole image a feverish, otherworldly quality that feels perfectly at home in Grant Morrison's run on the title. With "Fallen Angel" as the story and DC's mature-readers badge front and center, this 1991 installment promises the kind of beautifully strange territory the Doom Patrol had made its signature.