Death: The Time of Your Life #1

Dave McKean's cover photograph-and-design treatment bathes Death herself in warm amber light, her ankh pendant gleaming at the center as layered title typography — repeating "Death: The Time of Your Life" across the image — creates an almost hypnotic, multimedia effect. It's a striking opening to this three-issue Neil Gaiman miniseries, with art by Chris Bachalo and inks by Mark Buckingham waiting inside. Whether you're revisiting Vertigo's 1996 output or encountering this moody, distinctive cover for the first time, it sets a genuinely compelling tone for whatever Chapter One has in store.