Hellblazer #222

This Vertigo series has rarely looked more unsettling than on Lee Bermejo's painted cover for issue #222, which shows John Constantine surrounded and clutched at by a mass of skeletal figures — their bony hands grasping at him from every direction as he strains against their grip, pale-lit and grimacing. Denise Mina and Leonardo Manco bring their "Empathy Is the Enemy" arc to its conclusion here, and that cover sets an appropriately harrowing tone for whatever reckoning awaits Britain's most reluctant occult troubleshooter.