Enigma #2

The second chapter of DC Vertigo's eight-part series arrives with a cover by Duncan Fegredo that's as layered and unsettling as the title suggests — a masked, robed figure looms overhead while hands below clutch a sketched portrait of a gaunt, hollow-eyed face, the whole composition swirling with stars, golden spirals, and tribal patterns. Subtitled "The Truth," this issue promises the kind of psychologically rich storytelling that Peter Milligan and Fegredo, with colors by Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh, made their signature on this mature-readers series from 1993. If the cover's dreamlike collision of the sinister and the surreal is any indication, Enigma was already carving out its own strange corner of the early Vertigo landscape.