Industrial Gothic #1

Ted McKeever's Industrial Gothic arrives at DC/Vertigo in 1995 as a five-issue series, and this opening chapter sets an immediately unsettling tone. The cover depicts a lone figure walking a desolate road toward a massive, brooding industrial structure — part factory, part fortress — looming against a hazy cityscape of skyscrapers, flanked by smokestacks and power lines stretching into the fog. McKeever's cover art captures something genuinely atmospheric: the tension between the human-scale traveler and the crushing weight of the mechanical world ahead of them makes "Anywhere but Here" feel like a destination you're both drawn to and wary of.