Hellblazer #16

John Constantine stands front and center on Jesús Merino's cover, trenchcoat-clad and cigarette in hand, his expression a study in weary defiance — while a crowd of ghastly, wounded figures press in around him from every direction. Rendered in ghostly pale blues against his solid, grounded presence, the surrounding faces grin and grimace beneath blood-dripping letters that spell out "THANK YOU," giving the whole image an unsettling, sardonic charge. Kicking off "The Bardo Score" in January 2018, this issue brings Richard Kadrey's voice to Constantine's world, with colors by Carrie Strachan that make the supernatural feel genuinely chilling.