The Dreaming #59

The third chapter of "Rise" arrives in this moody 2001 Vertigo entry, with a Dave McKean cover that plunges you straight into the dreamlike chaos — a tangle of struggling figures rendered in murky golds and greens, blades glinting amid a swirl of what appear to be fantastical creatures and cloaked combatants locked in fierce conflict. Caitlín R. Kiernan continues her run on the series alongside artist Christian Højgaard and inker Ron Randall, a creative team that brought a distinctly literary unease to Sandman's companion title. "The Prodigals" promises the kind of layered, atmospheric storytelling that made The Dreaming such a rewarding corner of the Vertigo universe.