Moonshadow #7

Jon J. Muth's watercolor cover for Moonshadow #7 is quietly arresting — a figure draped in flowing white cloth stands before French doors, pressing fabric to their face in what reads as grief or exhaustion, while candles flicker at their feet and a pale moon looms in the darkened window behind them. The restrained palette of cool blues, warm candlelight, and luminous white fabric gives the image a painterly intimacy that sets this Vertigo series apart from nearly everything else on the 1995 rack. J. M. DeMatteis and Muth's collaboration, subtitled "Book Seven: Counterpane," promises another deeply felt chapter in this singular story.