Hellblazer #106

A trench coat-clad John Constantine stands with his back to us, dwarfed by an enormous green war memorial statue of a World War-era soldier looming over a row of colorful terraced houses — it's a quietly unsettling image that says a great deal about history, violence, and the streets Constantine calls home. Sean Phillips's cover work is painterly and atmospheric, grounding the supernatural series in a very real-feeling sense of place and weight. "In the Line of Fire, Part One of Two" kicks off a two-part arc from writer Paul Jenkins, and this 1996 Vertigo issue promises the kind of thoughtful, street-level storytelling that makes Hellblazer so enduringly compelling.