Alabaster: Wolves #5

The concluding chapter of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Steve Lieber, and Rachelle Rosenberg's five-part series arrives with a cover by Greg Ruth that is genuinely hard to look away from — a bloodied young woman with great spectral wings spreads her arms amid a storm of scattered, handwritten pages, a dripping blade in her grip. The image carries both exhaustion and defiance, suggesting a protagonist who has fought through something terrible and isn't quite finished yet. A striking send-off for one of Dark Horse's more atmospheric 2012 series.