The Books of Faerie: Auberon's Tale #3

The concluding chapter of Auberon's Tale arrives with a cover that's rich with uneasy tension — a blue-skinned, pointed-eared figure wearing a fur-trimmed robe and a jeweled crown stands at the center, surrounded by a crowd of goblins, trolls, and other fae creatures wearing expressions ranging from suspicion to outright menace. A winged green imp hovers above the crown, and the bold tagline "King… for a Day?" hangs in the lower left, casting real doubt over the royal figure's grip on power. Writer Bronwyn Carlton and artists Peter Gross and Vince Locke bring Vertigo's lush, darkly whimsical corner of Faerie to a close with a cover — painted by Hermann Mejia — that perfectly captures the precarious nature of rulership in a realm where every courtier might be a rival.