The Invisibles #5

The unsettling cool of late-1990s Vertigo is on full display in this issue of Grant Morrison's reality-bending series, with a Brian Bolland cover that stops you cold: a red-haired woman in white mime-like makeup lies bloodied on an office floor, her vivid crimson hair pooling around her as two dark-suited men with drawn guns loom in the doorway behind her. The stark contrast between the clinical office setting — filing cabinets, monitors, scattered papers — and the raw violence of the scene gives the image a quiet, almost cinematic dread that Bolland renders with his characteristic precision.