Kid Eternity #8

Sean Phillips delivers a striking cover for this 1993 DC Vertigo series — a disorienting, collage-like composition featuring a figure viewed upside-down, wearing distinctive orange-tinted round glasses, surrounded by a swirl of fragmented words: "desire," "fist," "heel," "implosion," "redundant gender," and more. The layered text and inverted perspective give the whole image an unsettling, dreamlike quality that feels right at home in Vertigo's mature-readers lineup. Ann Nocenti's "God's Tick" promises the same off-kilter sensibility this series has made its hallmark.