Alice Forever After #3

Dan Panosian's cover for this third chapter of Alice Forever After sets an unsettling, storybook tone: a rosy-cheeked Alice smiles with an eerie calm, her braids and pinafore picture-perfect, while a hissing, wild-eyed cat writhes in her lap against a lush, patterned green backdrop. There's something quietly off about the whole tableau — the sweetness and the snarl existing in perfect tension — that makes it hard to look away. "The Doormouse Diaries" promises another chapter of Boom! Studios' darkly reimagined Wonderland, and this cover alone earns the price of admission.