Hellblazer #151

Brian Azzarello and Marcelo Frusin kick off a six-part arc with this August 2000 Vertigo entry, and Tim Bradstreet's cover sets the tone perfectly: John Constantine hunches against a burnt-orange sky, lighting a cigarette on a desolate American roadside, a railroad crossing sign looming behind him. The image — Constantine framed against a road map of West Virginia that bleeds into the background — feels quietly ominous, suggesting a man arriving somewhere he probably shouldn't.