The Unwritten #25

Two figures sit back-to-back at the center of a swirling vortex of words and text fragments — a young woman in glasses and a blue sweater leaning into a dark-haired young man in white who holds a small red book — as streams of prose radiate outward around them in Yuko Shimizu's beautifully intricate cover art. The image captures the essence of The Unwritten perfectly: stories, language, and identity all spinning together in one charged moment. Mike Carey and Peter Gross kick off "Citizen Taylor" with this 2011 Vertigo issue, and if the cover is any indication, the power of narrative is about to bear down on these two characters with full force.