Hunter: The Age of Magic #2

Vertigo's Hunter: The Age of Magic #2 (2001) kicks off its "Lake of Fire" arc with a cover by John Bolton that immediately pulls you in — a young man in glasses and a young woman lean over what appears to be an open container radiating an eerie green glow, her expression caught somewhere between wonder and alarm. Bolton's painted realism lends the scene a genuinely unsettling intimacy, making this second chapter — "The House of Leaves" — feel like a mystery about to spill out of its pages. With Dylan Horrocks writing and Richard Case on interior art, this Vertigo series promises the kind of quietly strange storytelling that mature-readers fans were gravitating toward in 2001.