5 Worlds #3

The third volume in the *5 Worlds* series brings readers back into a richly imagined sci-fi universe, this time venturing into "The Red Maze" — and the cover, by Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, and Boya Sun, sets the mood beautifully. A blue-skinned girl stands confidently at the center of a glowing circular portal, flanked by a tall, sharp-eyed companion on one side and a smaller, wide-eyed friend rushing in from behind, while a small luminous creature drifts nearby — all framed by a tangle of deep-red pipes suggesting labyrinthine dangers ahead. With a sun-drenched desert visible through the portal and the whole scene bathed in warm, otherworldly color, this 2019 graphic novel looks like exactly the kind of visually stunning all-ages adventure that earned it praise as a "must-read.