Sandman #67

Part of Neil Gaiman's landmark "The Kindly Ones" arc, this eleventh chapter arrives with a distinctively unsettling Dave McKean cover — a bare music stand holds a collaged arrangement of a fish, a rainbow, classical sculptural imagery, and a silhouetted profile, all rendered in McKean's signature mixed-media style against a cool, pale background. The juxtaposition of the mundane and the mythic feels quietly ominous, perfectly in keeping with Sandman's tone in 1995. With Marc Hempel on interior art and Gaiman at the helm, this is a compelling chapter in one of Vertigo's most ambitious ongoing stories.