The Dreaming #42

This haunting installment of Vertigo's The Dreaming arrives with a Dave McKean cover that is unmistakably his own: a fragmented, dream-logic face dissolves into shards of glass and overlapping geometric schematics, hovering between dissolution and recognition. The image perfectly captures the unsettling tension promised by the story title "Fox and Hounds, Part Three: Detonation Boulevard," where something — or someone — appears on the verge of breaking apart entirely. Caitlín R. Kiernan's writing, paired with Christian Højgaard's interior art and inks by Ron Randall, makes this November 1999 issue a genuinely atmospheric chapter in one of Vertigo's more quietly compelling series.