Arrowsmith #1

From Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco comes Arrowsmith: So Smart in Their Fine Uniforms, Volume 1 — a World War I-flavored fantasy where magic and military collide. Pacheco's cover art (inked by José Rafael Fonteriz) presents a young blond soldier in a WWI-era uniform standing defiantly atop a mound of battle-worn helmets and skulls, gripping a glowing sword aloft while a red-winged dragon perches at his shoulder and swarms of winged, bat-like creatures fill the fiery amber sky behind him. It's a beautifully composed image that immediately signals a world where the trenches of the Great War are haunted by something far older and stranger than gunpowder.