Doom Patrol #75

Brian Bolland's cover for this February 1994 Vertigo milestone is a genuinely arresting piece of art — a luminous, blue-skinned female figure whose body serves as a living canvas, covered in intricate imagery including snakes, insects, a crustacean, cosmic spirals, and the Earth itself, while a grinning clown puppet peers up from the foreground with an unsettling smile. The tagline "Reconstructing the Deconstructed" sets the tone for what Rachel Pollack and Ted McKeever have in store with "The Teiresias Wars, Part One: A Handful of Dust." Doom Patrol has always thrived at the strange edges of superhero comics, and this issue's cover alone makes a compelling case that the series remains one of Vertigo's most fascinatingly weird corners.