Hellblazer #141

Tim Bradstreet's cover for "The Crib" is a striking piece of dark atmosphere: John Constantine stands in his trademark trench coat, cigarette in hand, surrounded by a writhing mass of grotesque, skeletal demonic figures that press in from every direction. Constantine's calm, almost detached expression against that nightmarish backdrop captures exactly what makes this Vertigo series so compelling — the man who walks through hell looking mildly inconvenienced. Warren Ellis and Bradstreet make a natural pairing for this October 1999 chapter of Constantine's ongoing supernatural misadventures.