Saga #40

Chapter Forty arrives with one of the more quietly affecting covers in Saga's run — a TV-headed figure sits cross-legged, arms folded, its screen glowing with a colorful cartoon scene of a small green-haired child and a pink dinosaur, while a young child in an orange hoodie, tail curling behind them, sits facing that flickering image. Fiona Staples' cover art finds something unexpectedly tender in the contrast between the mechanical and the innocent, framing a moment that feels like a strange, intergalactic bedtime story. Brian K. Vaughan and Staples continue to make this Image series one of the most visually inventive ongoing titles of 2016.