Are you Alice? #7

A dark-haired, blue-eyed young man dominates the foreground of this striking 2016 volume from Kazé, his face half-hidden behind a scatter of playing cards — queens and aces tumbling through the composition with elegant menace. Behind him, two sharply dressed figures watch from the shadows of what appears to be a grand, crumbling staircase, hinting at the story's Wonderland-inspired intrigue. Are You Alice? volume 7 is a beautifully designed entry in this gothic manga series, and the cover's cool blue palette gives it an atmosphere that's genuinely hard to look away from.