Hellblazer #29

A brooding revolver dominates this May 1990 issue of Hellblazer, its barrel still smoking as it rests across a fragmented, dreamlike composition — a partially obscured face peering beneath it, a pale ceremonial mask, and a fragment of what appears to be ancient pictographic art all layered in Kent Williams's richly painted cover. The earthy, unsettling tones set the mood perfectly for Jamie Delano's "Sick at Heart," suggesting Constantine caught between the mystical and the brutally physical. Ron Tiner's interior art promises the same dark atmosphere that made this mature-readers series one of DC's most distinctive offerings of 1990.