Hellblazer #261

This Vertigo arc opener drops John Constantine into unfamiliar — and deeply dangerous — territory, as the cover by Simon Bisley makes viscerally clear: a massive, multi-armed demonic entity rendered in blood-soaked blues and reds looms over a lone figure in a trench coat, dwarfed beneath its bristling fangs and claws against a hellish cityscape. Peter Milligan launches "India Part One" with that trademark sense of dread, and Bisley's painted intensity gives the threat a genuinely mythological weight. With Giuseppe Camuncoli and Stefano Landini handling interior art, this 2010 issue promises the kind of atmospheric, mature horror that made Hellblazer a Vertigo cornerstone.