American Virgin #11

Vertigo's American Virgin reaches its eleventh issue with a cover that captures a shirtless young man wearing a cross necklace, seen from a striking overhead angle as he moves through shimmering blue water — a quietly unsettling image that fits the "Wet" story arc perfectly. Joshua Middleton's cover art uses that cool aquatic palette to evoke both vulnerability and unease, the figure's wide blue eyes gazing directly upward at the viewer. Steven T. Seagle and Becky Cloonan's mature-readers series continues to promise the kind of thoughtful, emotionally charged storytelling that made this Vertigo title stand out in 2007.