The Invisibles #1

The final volume of Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, and John Stokes's mind-bending Vertigo series opens with a cover by Brian Bolland that is arrestingly spare: a bare arm thrusts up from the still water of a reed-lined marsh, hand clutching a pistol and surrounded by a warm, glowing orange halo. It's an image that feels simultaneously like a drowning and a defiant emergence — quiet, strange, and loaded with tension. A fitting gateway to "Glitterdämmerung!" and whatever the Invisibles have left to say in 2000.