Batgirl #31

Gail Simone, Fernando Pasarin, and Jonathan Glapion bring Gotham's guardian face-to-face with one of the DC Universe's most unsettling villains in this 2014 New 52 installment. Alex Garner's cover captures a vertigo-inducing struggle high above the city, with a grimacing Batgirl locked in the clutches of the blank-faced, contorting Ragdoll — his harlequin-patterned costume and wild red hair making for a genuinely striking image. The cover's tagline, "Torn Apart by Ragdoll!", sets a tense, urgent tone that makes this issue hard to pass up.