The Unwritten #27

Bathed in warm gold and amber light, the cover of The Unwritten #27 presents three figures against a sweeping Art Deco cityscape — a determined young man in a fedora and overcoat clutching papers at the fore, flanked by a red-bearded companion on the left and a bespectacled young woman on the right, each carrying documents of their own. The composition, rendered by cover artist Yuko Shimizu, has the feel of a 1930s pulp adventure given literary weight, perfectly suited to launching "On to Genesis — Part One of Four." With Mike Carey, Peter Gross, and Vince Locke driving this Vertigo series in 2011, it's a confident, atmospheric entry point into what promises to be an ambitious new chapter.