Preacher #43

Preacher #43 arrives in November 1998 with one of Glenn Fabry's most unsettling cover paintings: a woman in a white dress crouches in a dry field, her back to us, facing a weathered red farmhouse surrounded by rough wooden crosses driven into the earth — while two figures crouch on the porch steps and a third stands tall in the doorway. The story is titled "Christina's World," a name that carries its own quiet weight, and the whole image has the feel of a confrontation long in the making. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Vertigo masterwork was in full stride by this point, delivering the kind of emotionally charged, boundary-pushing storytelling that kept readers coming back every month.