Arkham Manor #5

Batman looms enormous over the crumbling facade of Arkham Manor itself on this striking cover, his clenched expression and glowing yellow background suggesting the whole institution is on the verge of coming apart — brick by brick, bolt by bolt. Shawn Crystal's cover art makes the building's destruction feel almost inevitable, debris exploding outward as if the Dark Knight's sheer presence is tearing the place down. With Gerry Duggan's "These Walls Must Hold," issue #5 of this 2015 New 52 series promises the kind of tension where the title alone feels like a dare.