Saga #14

Fiona Staples' cover for Saga #14 places a confident, horned woman in a crisp white blazer at the forefront — staff in hand, surveying a windswept golden landscape beneath a massive planetary body — while a wide-eyed young girl in a red shirt shields her eyes beside her, clearly taking in something vast and unexpected. The composition has a quiet, almost cinematic stillness that makes the science-fantasy scale of Brian K. Vaughan and Staples' universe feel genuinely lived-in. Chapter Fourteen looks like another beautifully grounded installment in one of 2013's most distinctive ongoing series.