The Psycho #1

DC's 1991 prestige-format miniseries kicks off here, with writer James D. Hudnall and Daniel Brereton — who handles both the art and the cover — setting a distinctly dark, electric tone. Brereton's painted cover places three striking figures against a stormy, Gothic cityscape: a luminous pink-skinned woman in yellow goggles and wild white hair strides forward in the foreground, while behind her loom a hulking armored brute and a robed, masked figure radiating an eerie green glow. The moody atmosphere and bold, painterly style make this first chapter of three feel like a serious, ambitious piece of early-'90s DC storytelling.