FIONA STAPLES’ first Marvel work is ‘MILES MORALES: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN’ #1’ cover. So good.

Fiona Staples. The artist that started off righteous on Saga and has only gotten better. She’s now dropping some hot Marvel goodness for the first time in the form of a cover for Miles Morales: Long Title. Exciting to see her in the Marvel flock. Even more exciting to ingest this gorgeous artwork.

Hit the jump for the full cover.

On sale in May, Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man #1 relaunches the saga of its titular superhero in high style, featuring a a particularly cool variant cover by Fiona Staples that you’re seeing here for the first time. The co-creator of Image Comics’ very popular and much acclaimed Saga, Staples is an artist whose routinely gorgeous covers for DC Comics, WildStorm, Archie IDW and Dark Horse have earned her numerous award nominations, but not until now has the artist’s work graced the cover of a Marvel Comics publication.

The piece depicts Miles in an exciting, Spidey-specific action shot I don’t think I’ve ever seen before, but what I like most about this cover is how well Staples’ fascination with amorphous, almost abstract digital backgrounds works so well at expressing the energy of New York at night. Indeed, the city should consider using this cover in its tourist promotional literature. [Comics Alliance]