The Dreaming #4

Dave McKean's haunting photomontage cover for this 1996 Vertigo title layers a vast, moss-textured face into a dense woodland, with a delicate winged figure nestled among the gnarled tree roots below — an image that feels simultaneously ancient and deeply unsettling. The Dreaming #4 opens Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse's "The Lost Boy" arc, promising the kind of quiet, eerie storytelling perfectly suited to Sandman's mythic corner of the DC Universe. If you're drawn to comics that linger at the edges of dream and woodland mystery, this is a fine place to step into the shadows.