Fables #120

Issue #120 of Vertigo's long-running Fables arrives in October 2012 as the seventh chapter of "Cubs in Toyland," and Joao Ruas delivers a cover that feels like a stained-glass window cracked open onto something unsettling. A red-haired child stands at the center, pale-eyed and solemn, framed by richly colored panels depicting a sword, a distant figure fishing by moonlight, a disembodied face on the ground, and swirling fantastical creatures. The whole composition radiates a fairy-tale gravity that perfectly suits Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, and their collaborators' ongoing saga of fabled characters navigating a world far darker than the stories that made them.