Totems #1

From DC's Vertigo V2K imprint in 2000, Totems #1 arrives as an oversized one-shot weaving together multiple story threads under the unsettling banner of "Y2K Bug." Duncan Fegredo's cover pulls you in with a dizzying spiral of psychedelic energy, from which a masked hero, a floating purple figure, and a red-haired woman emerge — all converging toward a massive green creature that looms at the right, while a grim-faced man in a trench coat watches from the foreground against a rain-slicked cityscape below. With writing by Tom Peyer and art from Fegredo, Richard Case, and Dean Ormston — colored by Alex Sinclair — this feels like exactly the kind of ambitious, eerie anthology that Vertigo was doing so well at the turn of the millennium.