Preacher #52

Glenn Fabry's painterly cover for Preacher #52 (August 1999) fills the entire image with a close-up portrait of a young blonde woman — her expression somewhere between steely resolve and quiet vulnerability, rendered in rich, warm tones against a hazy blue-purple background. The title "Even Hitgirls Get the Blues" hints that this Vertigo chapter puts a compelling female character squarely at its center. With Garth Ennis writing and Steve Dillon on interior art, this mid-run installment carries all the gritty emotional weight the series was known for in 1999.