Northlanders #36

From Vertigo's Viking saga Northlanders, this concluding chapter of "The Girl in the Ice" arrives with a haunting cover by Massimo Carnevale — a fur-clad figure sprawled across a snow-laden sled reaches desperately upward toward a spectral, skull-faced horseman raising a sword, while ghostly riders dissolve into the blizzard behind them. The tension between the fallen warrior below and the looming supernatural threat above gives the image a dreamlike dread that feels at once ancient and urgent. Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan bring this two-part arc to its close with the kind of stark, wintry atmosphere that has made Northlanders one of Vertigo's most compelling historical series.