Girl #2

The second issue of Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo's three-part Vertigo Vérité miniseries finds its young protagonist crouched against a chain-link fence, curly hair framing tinted blue sunglasses, her white skirt billowing around her against a city skyline glowing amber at dusk. A weathered "No Trespassing" sign beside her sets a mood that's both defiant and quietly electric. Fegredo's painted cover work is rich and confident — the kind of image that made Vertigo's 1996 mature-readers line feel genuinely alive.