Books of Magic #5

Part of DC's Sandman Universe line for mature readers, this fifth issue of Kat Howard and Tom Fowler's Books of Magic revival carries a beautifully atmospheric cover by Kai Carpenter. A young boy sits cross-legged on stone ground, absorbed in an open book while a magnificent owl spreads its wings above him — and looming in the dreamy cloudscape behind him is a towering castle and a vast, ethereal figure gazing down. It's a quietly spellbinding image that captures exactly the sense of wonder Big Comic Page called "a wondrous modern fairy tale.