Hellblazer #211

John Constantine's presence looms over this 2005 Vertigo issue as a stark white silhouette — an absence that feels more unsettling than any direct portrait could. Tim Bradstreet's cover surrounds that void with a striking dark-clad woman in the foreground, alongside a blonde woman, a grinning disheveled man, and a brooding figure, all set against a distant mass of armed figures. Penned by Mike Carey with art by Leonardo Manco, "Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go Part 5 of 6" promises a penultimate chapter steeped in the kind of shadowy menace Hellblazer does so well.