Shade, the Changing Man #13

Shade the Changing Man #13 arrives in July 1991 as a genuinely unsettling piece of psychedelic art, with Brendan McCarthy's cover depicting a red-haired figure whose face and torso dissolve into a cascade of layered imagery — disembodied eyes, fragmented mouths, and writhing patterns that seem to consume him from within. The tagline "They Were Unselfish" hovers at the bottom like an ominous non sequitur, perfectly in step with the surreal, mature-readers sensibility Peter Milligan, Chris Bachalo, and Mark Pennington bring to "Edge of Vision, Part III." If you've been following this run, this issue's cover alone confirms the series is operating in a creative space all its own.