Books of Magick: Life During Wartime #13

Issue #13 of DC/Vertigo's Books of Magick: Life During Wartime kicks off a three-part arc, "Losing My Religion," with a cover by Dean Ormston that's striking in its dreamlike energy — a young man mid-skate trick, clutching a swirling ribbon of cosmic imagery, stars and nebulae spilling out beneath him like the universe itself is being torn open. The skateboard's bold lightning-bolt graphic grounds the scene in something defiantly streetwise even as everything around it dissolves into the infinite. Si Spencer and Ormston's 2005 Vertigo series continues to blend the mundane and the magical in ways that feel genuinely singular.