The Unwritten #3

From Vertigo's unsettling 2009 series by Mike Carey and Peter Gross, this third chapter of "Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity" arrives with a cover that immediately commands attention. Yuko Shimizu's artwork depicts a young man, eyes closed and wired into an elaborate tangle of cables and mechanical apparatus, his hands gripping a glowing green severed head that grimaces up at him with an eerie, ghoulish expression. It's a striking image that weaves together technology and dark fantasy in a way that perfectly suits a series Ed Brubaker himself praised for capturing "the zeitgeist of our times.