The Unwritten #34

Two figures face off across a wall of flames on Yuko Shimizu's striking cover for this April 2012 Vertigo issue — a grizzled, intense older man on the left confronting a younger, glasses-wearing man on the right, with a mechanical armored gauntlet jutting up between them from the fire below. The tension radiating from that confrontation sets the stage perfectly for "Tommy Taylor and the War of Words — Part Four," with Carey, Gross, and Perker continuing their acclaimed literary adventure series. If you've been following The Unwritten, this issue promises the kind of charged, ideas-driven drama the series does so well.