Hellblazer #85

Sean Phillips's cover for Hellblazer #85 is a quietly striking portrait: a haggard John Constantine, cigarette dangling from his lips, cradles what appears to be an infant in his arms — an image that radiates unease beneath its deceptively tender surface. The contrast between his weathered, world-worn face caught in a shaft of pale light and the shadowy blue darkness surrounding him gives the whole composition a deeply atmospheric, almost painterly weight. With Eddie Campbell writing and Phillips handling interior art as well, this 1995 Vertigo chapter — "Warped Notion, Pt. 1: The Delicate Power of Terror" — promises the kind of grounded, human-scale dread that made Hellblazer essential reading.