The Mice Templar, Volume IV: Legend #5

The Mice Templar's Harvey Award–winning saga rolls on with this fifth issue of Volume IV: Legend, and the watercolor-style cover beautifully captures the epic scope of this anthropomorphic fantasy. A determined, armored mouse warrior surges forward clutching a blazing sword, while looming spirit-like figures — a stag, a bear, an eagle, and a wolf among them — fill the background like ancient guardians watching over the battle. Glass, Oeming, Santos, and Guerra continue to deliver a world that feels genuinely mythic, and this 2013 installment wears its Newsarama "10 out of 10" praise well.