Hellblazer #73

Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Hellblazer was one of Vertigo's darkest ongoing series in 1994, and issue #73 — the second chapter of "Damnation's Flame" — arrives with a cover by Glenn Fabry that pulls no punches: a bound, shirtless man suspended by ropes towers over a glittering city skyline, an "Away Zone" sign looming above him against a blood-red sky, words carved into his torso making the threat unmistakably grim. It's the kind of image that captures everything unsettling about Constantine's world — urban, visceral, and deeply uncomfortable in all the right ways.