FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics #21

Three figures — a curly-haired man in sunglasses flanked by two women — stride forward with urgent energy while an enormous mechanical sphere hurtles through a swirling cosmic tunnel behind them. Nathan Fox's cover crackles with retro-psychedelic color and sharp diagonal lines that give the whole composition a sense of physics literally coming apart at the seams. From Simon Oliver, Alberto Ponticelli, and Michael Wiggam, this August 2015 Vertigo entry delivers the kind of visceral, mind-bending atmosphere that makes FBP such a distinctive corner of the DC universe.