Fables #147

Vertigo's long-running fairy-tale saga reaches its penultimate chapter with Fables #147, part seven of "Happily Ever After" — subtitled "The Last Story of Beauty and the Beast." Nimit Malavia's cover is a dreamlike composition: a woman reclines serenely, cradling a lion cub to her lips, while a magnificent full-maned lion fills the lower half of the image, all bathed in warm amber tones and surrounded by delicate blue butterflies. It's a tender, poetic image that captures the quiet emotional weight Bill Willingham and the creative team — including Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, Shawn McManus, and Lee Loughridge — bring to this beloved series in 2015.