Hellblazer #142

John Constantine stands battered and weary inside a grand, cathedral-like space — trenchcoat bloodied, one hand raised to his bruised face — and Tim Bradstreet's cover linework gives the scene a haunting, almost elegiac weight. Warren Ellis brings his sharp, unsentimental voice to the series here in 1999, with Javier Pulido illustrating the lead story "Setting Sun." It's the kind of issue that reminds you why Hellblazer earned its Vertigo mature-readers badge — moody, bruised, and impossible to look away from.