Animal Man #29

This haunting 2014 installment of DC's New 52 Animal Man carries a weight that's hard to shake — the cover by Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman presents Buddy Baker's family as a bruised, bloodied portrait, four figures gathered together with weary, hollow expressions against a swirling border of eyes and writhing organic shapes. The youngest holds a small kitten, a fragile note of tenderness amid the splattered crimson and the sense that this family has been pushed well past its limits. Titled "...Goodnight, Animal Man," this issue promises a chapter with real emotional consequence for one of the New 52's most compelling superhero families.