Batgirl #15

A quiet hillside moment belies the tension promised by the cover's tagline, "Calm Before the Storm," as a red-scarved figure in a blue robe — katana at the ready — sits watchfully beside an armored Batgirl resting in the grass, a misty landscape stretching out behind them. Reiko Murakami's painted cover has a genuinely serene, almost melancholy beauty that makes the looming conflict feel all the more weighty. Tate Brombal, Stephen Segovia, and Rain Beredo continue "The War of Shadows" with this fourth chapter, and if the cover is any indication, the story has real emotional depth to match its action.