Saga #9

Fiona Staples' cover for Saga #9 is arrestingly intimate — a shirtless, battle-worn man is enveloped by a pale, otherworldly woman with red multi-lens eyes, a sleek helmet, and long white hair, her many clawed limbs wrapping around him with an unsettling tenderness. The purple backdrop throws the two figures into vivid relief, making the strange beauty of their entanglement feel both dangerous and deeply personal. Brian K. Vaughan and Staples continue to push their space-opera universe into genuinely unexpected emotional territory, and this Chapter Nine promises more of the same.