The Unwritten: Apocalypse #9

The cover by Yuko Shimizu is a striking piece of art — a young man in elaborate samurai-style armor stares out with one exposed, wide-open eye while his helmet shatters apart in an outward burst of white rays, scattered fragments of paper swirling through a golden, ornately textured background. Blood streaks his face, and crumbling ruins loom faintly behind him, lending the image a sense of enormous, world-breaking force. This November 2014 Vertigo issue, "Inklings," brings Mike Carey and Peter Gross's literary apocalypse tale to a vivid and unsettling chapter that fans of thoughtful, myth-soaked storytelling won't want to miss.