Hellblazer #89

Sean Phillips paints a striking vision of John Constantine stripped of his trademark trenchcoat — shirtless, daubed with Aboriginal-style body paint in red and white, and gripping a long ceremonial spear as he stands barefoot against sun-warmed desert rock. The title "Dreamtime" and that raw, sun-baked outback setting signal a story that takes Constantine far outside his usual urban haunts into something ancient and primal. Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips bring a genuinely painterly quality to this 1995 Vertigo entry that feels more like fine art than a standard comic cover.