Alice in the Country of Joker: The Nightmare Trilogy #1

Sunflowers, colorful balloons drifting through a summer sky, and a pink flamingo set a deceptively breezy scene for this first volume of *Alice in the Country of Joker: The Nightmare Trilogy — Dream Before Dawn*. Cover artist Job renders a silver-haired, eye-patched figure in formal black seated alongside a brown-haired young woman in an ornate blue dress, the two sharing a languid, charged moment on an elaborate bench — the kind of quiet tension that feels anything but restful. With story by QuinRose and art by Job, this 2014 Seven Seas Entertainment release promises a Wonderland full of beauty and unease in equal measure.