Air #4

Air #4 brings G. Willow Wilson and M. K. Perker's Vertigo series to a compelling fourth chapter with a cover that doubles as a naturalist's field guide gone wonderfully strange. Perker's artwork arranges eight numbered specimen illustrations — exotic and fantastical birds, a serpentine creature with a toothed orange beak, and the portrait of a sharp-eyed blonde woman — against a clean white background with the cool precision of a scientific catalog. The blurb from Jason Aaron calling it "a beautiful and intriguing post-9/11 fairy tale, part Gabriel García Márquez, part LOST" sets the mood perfectly for this quietly ambitious series.