Fables #105

Fables #105 brings a haunting, emotionally charged image from cover artist Joao Ruas: a dark-haired woman cradles a wounded, bloodied man mid-air against a smoldering, ash-grey sky, the two figures locked in a desperate embrace that pulses with equal measures of grief and tenderness. The "Super Team" arc continues here under the creative team of Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, and Andrew Pepoy, promising the kind of mature, myth-steeped storytelling Vertigo's flagship series delivered throughout 2011. If the cover's raw, painterly anguish is any indication, "The Wind That Shakes the Worlds" is living up to its dramatic title.