Fables #72

This June 2008 Vertigo series entry brings "Skulduggery Part Two of Two" to a striking close, framed by a cover from James Jean that pulses with vivid neon color and raw tension — a bloodied man sprawling in the foreground, a woman in chains caught in a fierce struggle with another figure above him, the whole composition crackling with violence and desperate energy. Jean's fluid linework gives the scene an almost painterly quality, blending fairy-tale elegance with genuinely unsettling intensity. Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham's ongoing reimagining of folklore figures continues to push into mature, compelling territory with this issue.