Hunter: The Age of Magic #14

Vertigo's mature-readers series reaches its fourteenth issue with a cover by Jon Foster that radiates an unsettling, dreamlike intensity — a solitary figure in white, arms outstretched and sunglasses gleaming, appears to dissolve into a swirling tide of red arcane script that bleeds across every surface. The ghostly, layered composition gives the whole image a sense of magical forces pressing in from all sides, perfectly suited to a story arc titled "War." Dylan Horrocks and the artistic team of Richard Case and Chris McLoughlin bring their distinctive Vertigo sensibility to this October 2002 chapter of one of the imprint's more thoughtfully crafted supernatural series.