Girl Genius #7

Agatha Heterodyne takes center stage on this beautifully ornate cover, rendered in rich steampunk detail — goggles, gears, and bubbling apparatus surrounding her as a lightning-struck airship looms ominously overhead. Subtitled Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle, this seventh volume of Phil and Kaja Foglio's gaslamp fantasy promises exactly what it advertises: adventure, romance, and mad science in equal, gloriously chaotic measure. It's a handsome package for one of comics' most inventive genre mashups.