Age of Bronze #30

Eric Shanower's meticulous retelling of the Trojan War reaches its thirtieth issue with a cover that says everything about the arc's title — "Betrayal" — in one striking image: a grinning, bejeweled puppeteer pulls the strings of two smaller figures, a sword-bearing warrior and an elegantly adorned woman, rendered entirely in a bold two-tone green palette. The puppet-master imagery captures the web of manipulation at the heart of this ancient saga with quiet, unsettling wit. If you've been following Shanower's beautifully researched odyssey through Bronze Age myth, issue thirty is another essential chapter.