Hellblazer #168

John Constantine stands in his signature rumpled trenchcoat, cigarette in hand, cast against a giant bingo board that fills the background — it's a quietly unsettling image that turns an everyday game into something shadowed and ominous. Tim Bradstreet's cover art renders Constantine with his usual world-weary cool, the contrast of light and dark giving the scene a noir weight perfectly suited to Vertigo's mature-readers sensibility. With Brian Azzarello writing and Giuseppe Camuncoli on interior art, "A Fresh Coat of Red Paint" promises the kind of gritty, street-level storytelling that defined Hellblazer in 2002.