Kid Eternity #13

Sean Phillips delivers a striking cover for this 1994 DC Vertigo entry in Ann Nocenti's run on Kid Eternity — two figures share an intense kiss at the center, their clasped hands caught in a quiet moment of tenderness, while thick, coiling tentacles wind menacingly around their feet against a vivid red landscape. The contrast between the intimacy of that embrace and the creeping danger below sets a perfectly unsettling tone for a story titled "The Heat." Mature-readers Vertigo at its most atmospheric.