Kid Eternity #10

Sean Phillips's cover for this February 1994 Vertigo issue sets a striking mood: Kid Eternity strides alone down a rain-slicked city street at night, leather jacket and sunglasses on, with casino lights and traffic blazing in amber and red reflections all around him. It's a quietly confident image — one figure against a sprawling, indifferent urban glow — that fits perfectly with Vertigo's mature-readers sensibility of the era. Ann Nocenti and Phillips bring "Small Wages" to life in what promises to be another moody, street-level chapter of this underworld odyssey.