Hellblazer #145

Glenn Fabry's cover for this Vertigo mature-readers title sets a quietly unsettling tone: a gaunt, elderly man in a dark suit dominates the foreground, his weathered face and ringed hand rendered with striking realism, while behind him a disheveled figure slumps wearily against an orange car at what appears to be an out-of-order gas station. A close-up of a bee resting on a flower anchors the lower left, tying directly into the "Ashes & Honey" title of this two-part arc. Writer Darko Macan and artist Gary Erskine bring their story to its conclusion here, and Fabry's layered, almost painterly composition makes the wait for whatever these characters have in store feel genuinely compelling.