Preacher #62

Part four of the seven-part "Alamo" arc brings one of Vertigo's most unsettling covers to the fore: Glenn Fabry fills the entire image with a grotesquely disfigured face — mismatched eyes, ravaged skin, and an expression of quiet menace — looming over a dusty Texas road sign and a parked vehicle bathed in a deep sunset. It's a portrait of wrongness rendered with remarkable craft, the kind of image that makes you want to look away and look closer at the same time. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher was never shy about staring into the uncomfortable, and this 2000 issue makes that promise unmistakably clear from the cover alone.