The Sandman Presents: Deadboy Detectives #4

The concluding chapter of "The Secret of Immortality" arrives with a Dave McKean cover that is equal parts haunting and hypnotic — a massive, brooding face rendered in deep purples and inky blacks dominates the image, while a contorted figure reaches upward above it and a distressed figure cowers in the lower left. Ed Brubaker and Bryan Talbot bring their four-part Sandman Presents miniseries to a close with this November 2001 issue, and McKean's unsettling collage-style composition sets the mood perfectly for a series that has always lived at the eerie intersection of childhood and the uncanny. If you've followed the Dead Boy Detectives through this arc, this finale is not one to leave incomplete.