Shade, the Changing Man #37

From DC's Vertigo imprint in 1993, this installment of Shade, the Changing Man carries the story title "The Passion Child, Part Two," and the cover by Chris Bachalo is a haunting, dreamlike composition that sets the tone beautifully. A pale, double-faced figure — two mirrored faces split by a feather — is framed within an ornate gold picture frame surrounded by a swirl of clocks and scattered numbers, while distant figures stand in a surreal, checkerboard-edged landscape below. Fragments of text and dictionary definitions bleed along the left margin, and a caption within the frame reads "None I could remember. Understand, I wasn't ill treated. I wasn't treated at all. No beatings, no love. No anyt—" — a quietly devastating tease that perfectly captures the emotional depth Peter Milligan, Bachalo, and Rick Bryant consistently brought to this series.