The Crow #5

Kent Williams's painted cover for this 1999 Image series entry is quietly haunting — two figures, a bare-chested man and a woman in red, lie entwined as a black crow dangles inverted above them on a cord, the muted, brushy palette lending the whole image a dreamlike gravity. It's a striking visual introduction to "In the Skin of an Angel Part 1," with Jon J. Muth writing and Paul Lee on art duties inside. The composition manages to feel both tender and ominous, which is exactly the kind of mood The Crow does best.