American Gods #9

Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell's adaptation of American Gods reaches its ninth issue with a striking cover by Glenn Fabry — a battered, snow-encrusted figure in a patch-covered jacket stares out from the image with raw, unsettling intensity, ice clinging to his face and hands. The painterly realism captures something elemental and harrowing, perfectly suited to Gaiman's mythologically charged American landscape. Scott Hampton's interior inks and colors round out a creative team clearly committed to bringing every grim, wintry detail of this world to life.