Northlanders #31

Part two of "Metal: The Greening" arrives in this October 2010 issue of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli's Viking-era Vertigo series. Massimo Carnevale's cover is a quietly arresting painting — a hooded woman in medieval dress stands amid dense, luminous green foliage, one hand resting on a walking staff, her calm expression suggesting quiet resilience rather than overt danger. The lush, almost otherworldly woodland palette gives the image a mythic, contemplative mood that sets this arc apart from Northlanders' more battle-hardened chapters.