The Dreaming #40

Part one of "Fox and Hounds" arrives in The Dreaming #40, taking the Vertigo series to the atmospheric streets of New Orleans. Dave McKean's cover layers a pensive figure in a leather jacket against ghostly architectural imagery — wrought-iron balconies, a map-like cityscape, and shadowy suited figures drifting through the composition — capturing that city's hazy collision of the mundane and the mysterious. With Caitlín R. Kiernan writing and Christian Højgaard and Ron Randall on interiors, this 1999 issue promises a moody journey through dreamscapes and Southern Gothic atmosphere.