Shade, the Changing Man #63

The concluding chapter of "Nasty Infections" arrives in this September 1995 Vertigo entry, with Duncan Fegredo's cover delivering a visceral, unsettling image: Shade — his vivid red hair a stark focal point — looms in the foreground while two women are ensnared above him in a mass of writhing, organic purple tendrils and strange bulbous growths that sprawl across the entire composition. As the fifth and final installment of this arc, the cover's raw, almost hallucinatory energy makes a fitting promise that Peter Milligan, Richard Case, and Rick Bryant are bringing things to a head in genuinely memorable fashion.