Hellblazer #116

Sean Phillips's cover for this August 1997 DC/Vertigo issue sets a genuinely unsettling tone — a massive, green, red-eyed supernatural creature looms with its jagged maw wide open while two terrified children, a boy in a yellow shirt and a girl in a rust-colored jacket, flee in full panic toward the viewer. It's a striking image that captures the distinctly eerie, fairy-tale-gone-wrong atmosphere Paul Jenkins brought to the Hellblazer series during this era. "Widdershins, Part One of Two" promises a two-part story that clearly puts the vulnerable and the monstrous in very close proximity.