Mage, Book Three: The Hero Denied #3

There's something quietly compelling about a bald, bearded man in a jacket and jeans hitching a ride on a highway shoulder, duffel bag slung over one shoulder and thumb extended — a highway sign warning "No Reentry This Exit" looming beside him. Matt Wagner frames Kevin Matchstick's journey in Mage: The Hero Denied #3 with this grounded, almost melancholy image that makes mythology feel like a road trip. It's a striking reminder that Wagner's long-running saga has always known how to find the mythic hiding inside the everyday.