Moonshadow #3

Jon J Muth's watercolor cover for this 1994 DC/Vertigo reprint is quietly breathtaking — young Moonshadow strides forward playing a flute, while musical notes swirl around him like living things and dreaming figures (including a round, whimsical creature) drift weightlessly in the pale background. It perfectly captures the poetic, otherworldly tone of J. M. DeMatteis's story "Book Three: The Crying of the Wind." For fans of literary, lyrical comics, this is exactly the kind of issue that reminds you how transportive the medium can be.