Fairest #5

Spinning out of the beloved Fables universe, Fairest #5 arrives in September 2012 with the fifth chapter of "Wide Awake," bringing together the talents of Bill Willingham, Phil Jimenez, Andy Lanning, and Andrew Pepoy. Adam Hughes's cover art is a quietly stunning thing — a ghostly, sketch-like woman rides a great polar bear through swirling snow, the whole dreamlike scene framed against a roiling blaze of fire and embers above. The contrast between icy cold and consuming flame gives the image an almost fairy-tale tension that feels perfectly at home in Vertigo's mature-readers line.