The Unwritten #42

A sinuous column of flame-red energy spirals up the center of Yuko Shimizu's haunting cover for The Unwritten #42, surrounded by a swarm of luminous yellow moths and butterflies while a lone figure stands amid a procession of ghostly, shrouded forms in the dim background. The contrast between that warm, writhing torrent and the cold, muted crowd gives the image a dreamlike tension that feels perfectly at home in Mike Carey and Peter Gross's mythologically rich Vertigo series. "Live Like Lazarus" sounds like exactly the kind of story this creative team was born to tell.