The Invisibles #4

Grant Morrison's reality-bending Vertigo series reaches its fourth installment with a cover by Brian Bolland that stops you cold: a smooth, eerily serene white mask is held up by a gloved hand, concealing — or revealing — a grotesquely distorted, fleshy face beneath it. The contrast between the blank, almost innocent mask and the raw horror underneath perfectly captures the series' obsession with hidden truths and unseen layers of reality. Phil Jimenez and John Stokes handle the interior for this chapter of "Black Science," making issue #4 a compelling piece of 1997 Vertigo at its most unsettling.