Lucifer #35

Against a blazing crimson background, a sharp-suited, golden-haired Lucifer raises an ornate axe with cool, unsettling confidence — while a glimpse of luminous golden wings and a shadowed hooded figure lurk at the edges of the composition. Christopher Moeller's painted cover for this April 2003 Vertigo title radiates a sense of reckoning, perfectly suited to the second half of "Come to Judgment." Mike Carey's script, brought to life interiorly by Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, promises the kind of morally complex, beautifully rendered storytelling that made this series a standout of its era.