American Virgin #18

Vertigo's American Virgin heads to Delhi for the fourth leg of its globe-spanning arc, and Celia Calle's cover sets a striking mood: a cross-wearing young man stares out with steely resolve while two golden, temple-deity-like figures loom symmetrically above him, arms raised against an ornate architectural backdrop. The tension between faith and something far more overwhelming radiates right off the page. Steven T. Seagle and Ryan Kelly's mature-readers series continues to prove that 2007 Vertigo was willing to take its stories — and its covers — somewhere genuinely unexpected.