The Books of Magic #75

Peter Gross brings his triple role as writer, artist, and inker to this milestone seventy-fifth issue of Vertigo's long-running magical series, wrapping up "The Closing" with Part Three: "Inner Child." MW Kaluta's cover is a layered, dreamlike composition — a close-up of a dark-haired young man dominates the right side, while an oversized, eerily cheerful infant hovers above a crowd of ordinary-looking people going about their lives near a picket fence, with a gaunt, withered figure looming in the background. The interplay between childhood innocence and something far more unsettling gives this cover a quietly haunting quality that's hard to shake.