Hellblazer #140

Warren Ellis and Frank Teran's Hellblazer run delivers something genuinely unsettling with issue #140, "Locked" — and Tim Bradstreet's cover sets the mood perfectly. Constantine is depicted hunched and haggard against a blood-red, stain-mottled wall, his expression haunted and wary, every detail radiating the grim, grounded atmosphere that made this Vertigo series essential reading in 1999. It's a quietly oppressive image that promises the kind of morally tangled, street-level horror John Constantine does best.