Names of Magic #4

The penultimate chapter of Vertigo's five-part Names of Magic miniseries arrives with a cover by John Bolton that radiates urgency — a young man in glasses sprints headlong through a dreamlike, storm-lit sky, a vast shadowy creature looming at his back and an enormous, otherworldly fortress floating in the clouds behind him. The subtitle "Flight" says it all: whatever is pursuing him, standing still is not an option. Dylan Horrocks and Richard Case bring their blend of coming-of-age tension and DC's magical universe to a boil right here in 2001.