Hellblazer #252

John Constantine looms in a darkened, cramped interior — cigarette dangling from his lips, trenchcoat draped over his frame — while a small, disturbingly withered child crouches near a dim window behind him. The unsettling contrast between Constantine's weary nonchalance and that haunting figure makes this Lee Bermejo cover one of the most quietly unnerving of Vertigo's 2009 lineup. Peter Milligan, Giuseppe Camuncoli, and Stefano Landini continue "Under the Skin," the second chapter of the three-part "Scab" arc, promising the kind of supernatural dread that has always been Hellblazer's signature.