Greek Street #11

Peter Milligan's Vertigo series brings ancient Greek tragedy crashing into contemporary London, and this July 2010 installment — "Agnorosis," the sixth chapter of the Cassandra Complex arc — captures that collision with striking intensity. Davide Furnò's cover is a raw, unsettling image: a figure with blood-streaked red hair screams upward in anguish, framed by ornate ironwork and a classical column that quietly echoes the mythological underpinnings of the whole series. It's the kind of cover that stops you cold on the rack, promising exactly the kind of emotionally charged, myth-drenched storytelling Milligan and interior artist Davide Gianfelice have been delivering throughout this run.