Dial H #7

Part of DC's New 52 line, Dial H #7 brings China Miéville's inventive storytelling together with interior art by David Lapham for a chapter titled "Strategies of Multitude." Brian Bolland's cover is a striking image: a muscular, short-haired man in a sleeveless shirt reaches upward with outstretched fingers toward a floating rotary dial, all set against a deep, swirling field of translucent orbs, microscopic forms, and crystalline shapes that suggest something vast and strange beyond ordinary perception. The sense of yearning — one hand grasping, one held back — makes this 2013 issue feel like a quietly compelling piece of the series' larger, wonderfully weird puzzle.