Doom Patrol #86

Kyle Baker's cover for this 1995 Vertigo issue sets an unsettling, cerebral tone — a figure's head blazes with crackling psychic or supernatural energy, light erupting from the skull against a warm golden background, while the tagline "The Head Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" makes the imagery impossible to ignore. It's a striking visual that fits right in with the Doom Patrol's reputation for the genuinely strange. Inside, Rachel Pollack and Ted McKeever — who handled writing, art, inks, and colors — continue "Imagine Ari's Friends, Part Three: The Cup of Knowing," promising another chapter of the series' wonderfully surreal storytelling.