Saga #31

Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples continue their sprawling space opera with Chapter Thirty One, and Staples' cover alone captures everything that makes this series special. A green, insectoid figure gestures toward glowing blue star maps and radar displays while a small dark-haired child sits cross-legged on the floor beside it — the contrast between the towering alien and the attentive little figure, bathed in a single shaft of light cutting through a stark concrete space, feels quietly intimate and strange all at once. It's the kind of cover that reminds you Saga has always been as much about connection and curiosity as it is about the cosmos.