Industrial Gothic #4

Ted McKeever's singular vision is on full display in this penultimate chapter of his five-part Vertigo series. The cover, rendered entirely by McKeever, presents a dense, unsettling tableau of tangled figures — a grinning armored woman brandishing a sword, a man wielding a revolver, a rifle-toting figure, and several other disheveled characters piled together in a chaotic heap, all set against a glowing rose-window of fractured red and black. It's the kind of image that signals "Book Four: The Truncheon's Waltz" will not be a quiet affair, and with McKeever handling every creative role from writing to coloring (alongside Digital Chameleon), this series remains one of 1996's most distinctly personal works on the Vertigo imprint.