Hellblazer #36

This December 1990 issue of Hellblazer presents one of the series' most psychologically unsettling covers, painted by Kent Williams — a close-up, oil-rich portrait of John Constantine in profile, his face shadowed and gaunt, while a darker, featureless mask-like visage looms behind him against a smoldering, fiery background. The framing device of a battered, aged canvas gives the whole image the feeling of a soul examined under dim and unforgiving light. Jamie Delano and Sean Phillips bring their signature grim sensibility to "The Undiscover'd Country…," a title that evokes the unknown territories of death and the self that Constantine seems perpetually drawn toward.