The Unwritten #45

A young boy sits cross-legged on a bed surrounded by evergreen branches, clutching a pen over an open notebook — blood spattering the white sheets behind him and dripping down onto the pages below. It's a quietly unsettling image that captures The Unwritten's signature blend of childhood innocence and dark literary menace, rendered here in Yuko Shimizu's delicate, haunting linework. Mike Carey and Peter Gross kick off "The Corpse Harvest Reiteration" with this March 2013 first installment, and the cover alone makes a compelling case for what lies within.