Books of Magick: Life During Wartime #15

The final chapter of Si Spencer's Vertigo run closes with a cover by Duncan Fegredo that feels quietly contemplative — a young man in a purple jersey and camo pants stands with his back to us, an owl alighting on his outstretched arm, while a crescent moon glows above a vast Union Jack stretching across space beneath his feet. That tension between the mundane and the cosmic, the British and the otherworldly, captures the series' particular magic in a single image. A fitting send-off to one of Vertigo's more thoughtfully strange corners of the DC universe.