The Unwritten #35

Part five of "Tommy Taylor and the War of Words" arrives in this luminous 2012 Vertigo issue, with a cover by Yuko Shimizu that feels like a dream dissolving into language itself. A pale, green-eyed figure emerges from a golden haze, her flowing hair composed entirely of swirling, interwoven words and phrases — a haunting visual metaphor for a series always obsessed with the power of stories. Mike Carey and Peter Gross, with art by Gross and M. K. Perker, continue what has been one of Vertigo's most thoughtfully crafted explorations of narrative and identity.