Batman #85

In "Gotham War - Frontlinien," Batman awakens from an eight-week coma to find Gotham eerily quiet—crime has plummeted, not because of him, but because the city’s villains can’t recruit enough henchmen to carry out their schemes. Catwoman, who’s behind the sudden drop in criminal activity, offers the Bat-family a deal to continue her unconventional methods, but Batman refuses, setting off a tense standoff between two of Gotham’s most iconic figures. Written by Tini Howard, Chip Zdarsky, and Ralph Kruhm, with art by Mike Hawthorne and Adriano Di Benedetto, and colors by Romulo Fajardo Jr., this issue explores the cost of order and the limits of justice, all under Jorge Jiménez’s striking cover.