The Dreaming: Waking Hours #4

Part four of "The Bard and the Bard" arrives with a cover by Jeremy Wilson that sets a quietly unsettling mood — a blue-haired young woman in a dark jacket holds hands with a figure in white amid a dreamlike grove of rounded green trees, while an enormous shadowy creature looms overhead against a star-hung night sky. The contrast between the tender connection below and the lurking presence above gives the image a compelling tension that feels right at home in the Sandman Universe. G. Willow Wilson and artist Nick Robles continue their DC Black Label run with this 2021 installment, and the cover alone makes a strong case for picking it up.