Kid Eternity #2

The collision of the sacred and the strange is on full display in this 1993 DC/Vertigo entry, with Sean Phillips's cover layering a radiant, arms-raised angelic figure over a bold collage of imagery — nuns, a winged creature, an anatomical brain, and fragments reading "Heaven or Hell" — all hovering above a close-up of a face peering through tinted aviator glasses. Ann Nocenti and Phillips bring a genuinely unsettling, psychedelic sensibility to Kid Eternity, and this second issue — titled "Stir It Up" — suggests the series isn't interested in easy answers about the afterlife. It's a visually restless, thought-provoking package that rewards a second look.