Books of Magic #7

Part of DC's Sandman Universe imprint, Books of Magic #7 brings Kat Howard's mature-readers series to a wonderfully unsettling place with this atmospheric cover by Kai Carpenter. Two young figures — one with a sharp bob and hands raised as if bracing for something, the other bespectacled and clutching what appears to be a wand — stand amid a swirl of scattered leaves and feathers, while watchful eyes peer out from the twisted trees behind them. It's a mood that suits the story's evocative title, "Over the River and Through the Worlds," perfectly.