The Dreaming #52

This Vertigo title from 2000 opens "Exiles, Part One" with a hauntingly layered Dave McKean cover that blends a contemplative male figure — eyes closed, cradling a single orange lily — with ghostly, overlapping imagery of a weathered sculptural face and warm amber textures. The dreamlike collage technique feels perfectly at home on The Dreaming, where the boundary between the waking world and something stranger is always dissolving. Caitlín R. Kiernan's writing paired with art from Christian Højgaard and Ron Randall promises another deeply atmospheric chapter in this Sandman-universe series.