Hellblazer #173

Brian Azzarello and Marcelo Frusin's "Ashes & Dust in the City of Angels" rolls into its penultimate chapter with this 2002 Vertigo installment, part four of five. Tim Bradstreet's cover is a brooding, layered composition — a close intimate moment between two figures dominates the upper half, framed by chains and a cascade of charged words (HATE, GREED, CONSTANTINE, ENVY, FEAR, and more) that read like a map of John Constantine's world, while a cigarette hangs ominously overhead. Below, a steely-eyed Constantine stares out from what appears to be a wall of photographs, his expression carrying the weary resolve that defines DC/Vertigo's most reluctant supernatural troubleshooter.