The Awakening #4

The concluding chapter of Stephen Blue's The Awakening arrives with a cover that's hard to shake — a wide-eyed woman suspended in mid-air, arms outstretched, caught in dramatic crossed beams of light against a dark background spattered with vivid red. The image carries real unease, her expression hovering between terror and wonder, and the blood-red splashes framing her give the whole scene an unsettling urgency. Blue handles every element of this Image series himself — writing, art, and inks — and that singular vision is on full display in this 1998 finale.