Hunter: The Age of Magic #10

From Vertigo's mature-readers series, this June 2002 installment brings us chapter three of "The Evil Gene," rendered on the cover by Jon Foster with an almost dreamlike, painterly atmosphere. A wide-eyed young man in round glasses clutches what appears to be a book or small object while facing a swirling, ghostly figure that seems to emerge from smoke and shadow around him — the tension between the mundane and the otherworldly captured in striking, fluid brushwork. Dylan Horrocks, Richard Case, and Steve Bird continue their imaginative collaboration inside, making this a compelling chapter in one of Vertigo's more quietly absorbing magical adventures.