FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics #12

A swirling vortex of red energy frames a surreal portal to a sun-drenched tropical scene — palm trees and a hazy suburban landscape glimpsed through what feels like a tear in reality itself — while a vehicle is drawn helplessly toward it from below, making Nathan Fox's cover for this September 2014 Vertigo issue one of the most visually arresting in the run. FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics has always excelled at making physics anomalies feel genuinely unnerving, and this fifth chapter of "Wish You Were Here" promises that same charged tension between the mundane and the cosmically strange. Written by Simon Oliver with interior art by Robbi Rodriguez, this is the kind of series that reminds you Vertigo at its best could make scientific dread look absolutely beautiful.