Hellblazer #148

The third chapter of Brian Azzarello's "Hard Time" arc lands with a cover by Tim Bradstreet that captures the grim claustrophobia of incarceration — three inmates stare out from behind prison bars, their expressions ranging from guarded hostility to weary resignation, while a stained shower drain and graffiti-marked wall fill the lower panels with unsettling detail. It's a triptych composition that feels less like a comic cover and more like evidence from somewhere you'd rather not be. Richard Corben's interior art promises to match that atmosphere when John Constantine finds himself deep in a situation where the walls — and the people sharing them with him — close in from every direction.