Hellblazer #8

Hellblazer #8 from August 1988 arrives with a haunting Dave McKean cover that perfectly suits this mature-readers series — a tormented figure writhes in what appears to be ghostly agony, framed by serpentine red lines and photographic fragments of gravestones and crosses that blur the boundary between the painted and the real. The collage-style composition captures the spiritual dread that writer Jamie Delano, artist John Ridgway, and inker Alfredo Alcala bring to John Constantine's world. With the story titled "Intensive Care," this unsettling image of suffering and the uncanny sets an appropriately grim tone for whatever trouble Constantine has found himself tangled up in.