The Books of Magic #11

Part three of "The Artificial Heart" arrives in this 1995 DC/Vertigo entry, with a cover by Charles Vess that pulls you straight into its unsettling atmosphere. A towering, horned figure with mechanical, tentacle-like appendages cradles an open, glowing book in its enormous hands, while three small human figures — caught in that eerie light — seem desperately vulnerable against its scale. John Ney Rieber, Gary Amaro, and Peter Gross continue their collaboration on a series that consistently delivers this kind of beautifully strange imagery.