Hellblazer #218

John Constantine lights a cigarette against a brooding coastal sky, red autumn leaves swirling around him — and looming at his back is a massive, hooded skeletal figure that he either hasn't noticed or is deliberately ignoring. Lee Bermejo's painted cover captures that perfect Hellblazer tension between weary nonchalance and genuine menace. Writer Denise Mina and artist Leonardo Manco continue "Empathy Is the Enemy" with this third chapter of seven, a run that Entertainment Weekly praised for its "vivid slang and pervasive dread" — high praise that this unsettling image does nothing to contradict.