Hellblazer #31

The painted cover by Kent Williams sets a haunting tone for this July 1990 installment of Jamie Delano and Sean Phillips's Hellblazer — a gaunt, spectral figure looms from the darkness, its hollow eyes and pallid, withered form framed by a crescent moon and star that suggest something between the celestial and the sinister. The loosely expressionistic brushwork gives the image an unsettling, almost fever-dream quality that fits perfectly with a story titled "Mourning of the Magician." If you've been following Constantine's descent into the darker corners of the DC Universe, this is a chapter that announces itself with genuine dread.