Doom Patrol Annual #2

Part of DC/Vertigo's 1994 "Children's Crusade" crossover event, this Doom Patrol Annual presents a genuinely unsettling cover by Michael Uman — a fractured, mirror-image collage featuring three inset panels: a disheveled young girl clutching flowers, a close-up of a pale face with dark-ringed eyes and bared teeth, and a toy soldier figure rendered in eerie pinks and blues. Rachel Pollack and Mark Wheatley bring their singular sensibility to "The Wild, the Good, and the Grown-Up," promising the kind of strange, boundary-pushing storytelling that defined this era of Vertigo. The cover's disorienting, dreamlike design sets an appropriately off-kilter tone for one of DC's most delightfully weird titles.