The Invisibles #8

The painted cover by Sean Phillips sets an unsettling tone for "Arcadia, Part 4: H.E.A.D." — a grotesque, wide-eyed severed head dominates the image, its skull pierced by radiating wires and tubes, mounted above interlocking gears in a deeply strange tableau. It's the kind of arresting image that DC Vertigo made its calling card in 1995, signaling that Grant Morrison, Jill Thompson, and Dennis Cramer are steering this series somewhere genuinely disquieting. If you've been following The Invisibles, this fourth chapter of the Arcadia arc promises to keep pushing further into the surreal.