Hellblazer #201

John Constantine stares out from a fragmented cover — his face rendered in smoldering amber and orange tones, a cigarette dangling from his lips, his image broken apart by a mosaic of black panels as if reality itself is coming undone around him. Tim Bradstreet's cover art for this December 2004 Vertigo issue captures Constantine's brooding intensity perfectly, the visual fragmentation hinting at the kind of existential pressure that defines his world. With Mike Carey writing and Leonardo Manco on interior art, Hellblazer #201 — titled "Event Horizon" — promises the gritty, atmospheric storytelling that makes this mature-readers series so compelling.