The Invisibles #9

Grant Morrison's countercultural Vertigo series hits London with style in this October 1997 issue, featuring a Brian Bolland cover that crackles with anarchic energy. A goggled, bald figure in a long coat dominates the foreground — gun raised, cartoonish "BOMB" sphere in hand — while a woman in aviator gear fires her own pistol against a blood-red sky, Big Ben looming behind them and bewildered police officers scrambling below. "Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Sensitive Criminals Part Two)" promises the kind of gloriously chaotic adventure that made The Invisibles one of the most daring books DC's mature-readers line had to offer.