The Dreaming #37

Part two of "The Gyres" arc arrives in this June 1999 Vertigo title, subtitled "Pariah" — a word that hangs over Dave McKean's unsettling cover with quiet menace. McKean's painted imagery presents a solitary, bare-chested figure rendered in layered washes of gold, teal, and amber, hands raised as though in surrender or supplication, with a glowing triangular form resting before them. It's the kind of atmospheric, dreamlike cover that perfectly suits a series built around the shifting landscape of the Dreaming, with interior work by writer Caitlín R. Kiernan and artists Christian Højgaard and Teddy Kristiansen.