The Invisibles #25

The bold, pop-art cover by Sean Phillips sets the tone perfectly for this October 1996 installment of Grant Morrison's mind-bending Vertigo series — oversized sixes tumble across a vivid field of yellow, red, and blue, while a bearded, contemplative man with hands raised in an almost meditative gesture dominates the center, and a second face gazes in profile from the lower left against an architectural cityscape. Titled "6 and a Half Dozen of the Others," this issue promises the kind of layered, reality-questioning storytelling that made The Invisibles one of Vertigo's most daring runs of the mid-nineties. With Morrison writing and Mark Buckingham on interior art, there's every reason to dive in.