American Virgin #14

This Vertigo series from 2007 wraps up its "Wet" arc with a striking cover by Joshua Middleton — a young woman submerged or engulfed in swirling water, her expression caught somewhere between shock and surrender, bubbles and rippling light dissolving around her. The photorealistic, painterly imagery gives the whole thing an unsettling, dreamlike quality that perfectly suits Vertigo's mature-readers sensibility. Steven T. Seagle and Becky Cloonan bring their five-part story to a close, and this haunting cover promises the conclusion carries real emotional weight.