Hellblazer #103

Sean Phillips's painted cover for Hellblazer #103 splits the world into two unsettling halves: above, a lone figure in a trenchcoat — unmistakably John Constantine — stands smoking on a windswept coastal flat, looking utterly detached from the world around him; below the surface, a skeletal figure lies tangled among writhing worms in the earth beneath his feet. Part II of Paul Jenkins's "Difficult Beginnings" trilogy, this 1996 Vertigo entry makes quietly clear that whatever Constantine walks away from, something remains buried — and very much not at rest.