Names of Magic #2

The second chapter of this five-issue Vertigo limited series finds a young, bespectacled boy recoiling in alarm as disembodied hands reach toward him from a glowing green mobile phone — while shadowy, sunglassed figures loom ominously in the background against a quiet suburban street. John Bolton's painted cover work lends the scene an unsettling, grounded tension that sets the mature-readers tone perfectly. Dylan Horrocks and Richard Case deliver what promises to be a compelling blend of the everyday and the uncanny.