Briar #4

The fourth chapter of BOOM! Studios' dark fairy-tale series arrives with a cover that perfectly captures its brooding tone — a gauntleted fist raises a sword whose polished blade reflects the face of a silver-haired figure, one eye glowing with an eerie blue light, dark smoke curling around the blade's edges. Writer Christopher Cantwell and artist Germán García continue their grim reimagining of a familiar storybook world, and García's cover composition alone — intimate, foreboding, steeped in quiet menace — makes a compelling case for this series. If "Chapter Four: Adra Adrata Adracta" sounds like an incantation, that's entirely fitting for a book that feels like a spell cast in ink and color.