Books of Magick: Life During Wartime #14

This penultimate chapter of "Hossana Heysanna" arrives with a cover by Duncan Fegredo that crackles with scrappy, street-level tension — a young blonde girl and a heavyset man in a red-and-blue tracksuit are locked in a fierce physical struggle over a table strewn with maps and scattered photographs, a star-spangled skateboard and a London Eye snapshot lying on the floor below them. It's a striking collision of the mundane and the urgent, perfectly in keeping with the grounded, personal stakes that define Si Spencer and Dean Ormston's gritty Vertigo take on the Books of Magick world. Issue 14 of this 2005 series keeps the momentum building as the three-part arc heads toward its conclusion.