Dead Boy Detectives #7

Spinning out of the pages of The Sandman, Vertigo's Dead Boy Detectives #7 opens the five-part "Ghost Snow" arc with a cover that's quietly unsettling in the best way. A young woman in a red plaid sweater walks forward wide-eyed and tense, while an enormous, monstrous creature looms behind her — all jagged teeth and skeletal limbs rendered in stark black and white against her vivid color. Writers Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham, with cover art by Buckingham himself, set a mood that's equal parts eerie fairy tale and creeping dread.