The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country #6

The penultimate chapter of James Tynion IV and Maria Llovet's Sandman Universe arc arrives with a cover by Reiko Murakami that's quietly unsettling — a young woman with round gold-rimmed glasses and a cameo necklace stares ahead with barely contained unease, while two figures dance carelessly in the soft-hued background behind her. That contrast between her guarded tension and their oblivious reverie says everything about the uneasy world this series inhabits. Published under DC's Black Label mature-readers imprint in 2022, this issue promises the moody, dreamlike atmosphere Nightmare Country has delivered throughout.