Batman #8

Night of the Owls Begins!" announces this 2012 New 52 installment, and Greg Capullo's cover delivers on that promise with striking urgency — a barefoot Bruce Wayne in a torn robe stands defiant atop a rooftop peak, fists raised against a closing circle of glowing-eyed Talon assassins armed with blades and weapons. The image captures Bruce at his most raw and vulnerable, stripped of the cowl but not the will, surrounded on all sides by the Court of Owls' deadly agents. Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV script this chapter, with interior art by Rafael Albuquerque, making it a compelling chapter in one of the New 52's most gripping Batman runs.