Saucer Country #7

Paul Cornell's Saucer Country brings its UFO-meets-American-politics premise to a breathtaking place in this November 2012 issue, with Ryan Kelly's cover depicting a dramatic aerial confrontation: a U.S. Air Force jet screaming low over a patchwork landscape, its fuselage already taking fire from the red beams of multiple classic flying saucers circling overhead. The pilot is caught dead center in a dogfight that looks anything but winnable, and the sense of speed and scale Kelly captures is genuinely arresting. "The Bluebird Perspective" promises the kind of unsettling collision between mid-century Americana and alien menace that makes this Vertigo series so compelling.