The Dreaming #20

A hauntingly beautiful Dave McKean cover greets readers of The Dreaming #20, presenting a weathered wooden door whose grain subtly resolves into a serene, androgynous face — framed by swirling tendrils of dark organic growth and bound with heavy chains. It's the kind of unsettling, dreamlike imagery that makes DC's Vertigo line so distinctive in 1998. Al Davison takes on full writing and art duties inside for "Tears for a Dark Rose, Book 1: The Unwalked Path," the first chapter of a two-part story sure to reward fans of the series' atmospheric, otherworldly tone.