ElfQuest: The Final Quest #20

Wendy and Richard Pini's long-running saga continues with ElfQuest: The Final Quest #20 from Dark Horse, and the cover — penciled and inked by Wendy Pini — is a lush, warm gathering of elven faces filling every corner of the image. A cascade of luminous purple orbs floats through the scene, drawing the eye across a crowd of pointy-eared figures: a golden-haired elf adorned with the glowing spheres dominates the foreground, while a grinning, broad-faced troll-like figure beams from the bottom, and several other elves — including a dark-haired pair at center and a wild-maned figure in red — fill out the joyful ensemble. It's the kind of cover that captures the series' signature warmth and sense of found-family community that has made ElfQuest so enduring.