The Dreaming #18

Dave McKean's cover for this November 1997 Vertigo entry is genuinely unsettling — a distorted, greenish face dominates the image, its features fragmented and layered as though glimpsed through the warped logic of a dream, with lips and eyes displaced in deeply eerie fashion. It's a striking visual introduction to "Souvenirs, Part Two," written by Caitlín R. Kiernan with art by Peter Doherty, continuing what promises to be an atmospheric arc deep within the Dreaming. Fans of Vertigo's mature, surrealist edge will find this issue's cover alone an evocative mood-setter.