Hellblazer #41

Tom Canty's cover art sets a quietly unsettling tone for this May 1991 issue — a close-up of a red-bathed face with piercing green eyes looms over a shadowy urban alleyway lined with brick buildings, a "For Sale" sign, a magazines-and-books storefront, and an eerie billboard image of a skeletal figure. This is the opening chapter of "Dangerous Habits," written by Garth Ennis with interior art by Will Simpson and Mark Pennington, marking the beginning of what promises to be a dark new direction for John Constantine. If this cover's brooding atmosphere is any indication, Ennis and company are taking the Hellblazer world somewhere genuinely unsettling.