Batgirl #36

The cover of Batgirl #36 (March 2003) delivers an immediately gripping image: a masked, stitched-faced figure thrusts a pistol directly at the viewer point-blank while a bespectacled woman clutching a flip phone looks on with visible alarm against a fiery orange sky. The bold "POINT BLANK!" tagline in the corner perfectly captures the confrontational energy that penciler Damion Scott and inker Robert Campanella have built into every tense line of the composition. With Kelley Puckett at the helm, this issue promises the kind of sharp, kinetic storytelling that made this run a genuinely exciting chapter in Batgirl's world.