Batman #27

The Riddler dominates this Mikel Janín cover, blood-spattered and cold-eyed beneath his signature green bowler, fanning a hand of question-mark cards while coolly displaying a joker card bearing Harley Quinn's grinning face — a quietly chilling image that captures the brutal stakes of "The War of Jokes and Riddles." Tom King and Clay Mann deliver an interlude within that arc, with "The Ballad of Kite Man Part 1" promising a more personal angle on Gotham's all-out villain conflict. It's a confident, unsettling package from a creative team clearly hitting its stride in 2017.