The Invisibles #11

Brian Bolland's cover for this May 1999 Vertigo issue is a genuinely arresting image: a young man in a red hoodie and a bald, black-clad figure are both bound with rope to a massive number "11," struggling across a pastoral hillside dotted with rabbits and wildflowers — while in the background, an enormous wickerwork human effigy blazes against a searing yellow sky. The juxtaposition of that bucolic English countryside and the infernal burning giant gives the whole scene an unsettling, ritualistic charge that fits The Invisibles perfectly. With Grant Morrison writing and both Philip Bond and Warren Pleece on interior art, "Satanstorm, Two: Cold Britannia" promises the series' signature blend of the surreal and the sinister.