The Invisibles #4

Issue four of Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's Vertigo series delivers one of the more unsettling covers of 1994: Sean Phillips renders a figure with head thrown back and mouth wrenched open by metal restraints, surrounded by grinding mechanical gears and machinery against a stark crimson circle — an image that radiates helplessness and industrial dread. The cool blue palette contrasting with that blood-red backdrop gives the whole composition a fever-dream intensity that suits The Invisibles perfectly. If you've been following "Down And Out In Heaven And Hell," this third chapter promises to keep the series in its distinctive, boundary-pushing territory.