The Unwritten #33

Part three of "Tommy Taylor and the War of Words" arrives in this March 2012 Vertigo issue, and the cover by Yuko Shimizu makes an immediate impression: a young man in jeans and a denim jacket rides a massive, snarling green dragon above what appears to be a grand domed building, wielding a long staff or lance as dark, stormy skies swirl overhead and streaks of red suggest something has already gone very wrong. The creature's golden wings and fierce red eyes give it an almost mythological grandeur, while the real-world cityscape below creates that signature Unwritten tension between the literary and the literal. With Carey, Gross, and Perker continuing their celebrated collaboration, this is exactly the kind of visually arresting chapter that keeps readers turning pages.