Beowulf #[nn]

The legendary Old English epic gets a striking comics treatment in this 2007 IDW adaptation drawn from the screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, with interior work by the talented Gabriel Rodriguez. The cover — rendered in pencils and inks by Rodriguez — fills the frame with a battle-hardened, long-haired warrior in ornate armor, his intense gaze and engraved chest plate radiating the raw authority of a man born to face monsters. Tied to the Paramount Pictures film of the same year, this is a compelling meeting point between ancient myth and modern storytelling craft.