Hellblazer #282

Simon Bisley's cover for Hellblazer #282 is a visceral, unsettling piece of work — a hulking, grey-skinned creature with a leering, blood-tinged grin looms over a terrified man whose face is crushed between multiple clawed, grasping hands. The stark subtitle "Solitary" sits beneath the chaos, hinting at themes of confinement and dread that Peter Milligan was exploring in the series at this point in 2011. It's the kind of image that earns Vertigo's "suggested for mature readers" label without any argument.