The Unwritten: Apocalypse #5

The cover by Yuko Shimizu is a haunting, beautifully rendered image that stops you cold: a white rabbit, strung upside down by a teal ribbon from a gnarled branch, bleeds onto a bed of lush red roses and foliage while small gloved hands clutch at its wound. It's an image that feels pulled from the darkest corner of a fairy tale, perfectly suited to a series that has always found violence lurking beneath the surface of storybook wonder. Mike Carey and Peter Gross's The Unwritten: Apocalypse continues to be one of Vertigo's most ambitious explorations of narrative and myth, and issue #5 — "When Rabbit Howls" — promises no shortage of that unsettling magic.