Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland #3

Issue three of IDW's Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland delivers one of 2014's most visually inventive covers, courtesy of Gabriel Rodriguez. The scene unfolds across an impossible, Escher-like staircase where a wild-haired figure in golden royal robes clutches a scepter and shield at the center, while a young boy in a blue suit peers down warily from one impossible angle and a jester tumbles along another — gravity itself seemingly having surrendered to Slumberland's dream logic. With Eric Shanower writing and Nelson Dániel's warm, lush colors breathing life into Rodriguez's intricate linework, this series continues to honor its whimsical source material with real craft and imagination.