Hellblazer #279

A massive, owl-like supernatural creature looms over a nighttime cityscape with glowing amber eyes and vast dark wings spread wide — and below it, a desperate John Constantine clutches a young woman as they scramble to escape its shadow. Peter Milligan's "Phantom Pains Part Three: Dead Man's Thumb" delivers exactly the kind of brooding, supernatural dread that made Hellblazer essential Vertigo reading in 2011. Simon Bisley's cover art gives the monster a genuinely unsettling, feathered enormity that makes Constantine and his companion look terrifyingly small by comparison.