Astro City #7

Astro City #7 (February 2014) presents one of the more quietly breathtaking covers of the Vertigo run, with Alex Ross painting a winged warrior woman in golden armor swept into an embrace by a blue-haired figure — all while a masked, cloaked presence looms ominously overhead against a star-scattered sky. That tension between romance and threat, rendered in Ross's richly luminous style, perfectly captures the emotional complexity Kurt Busiek and Brent Eric Anderson bring to this world. "The View from Above" promises the kind of story that reminds you why Astro City consistently finds humanity at the heart of the superhero experience.