Batman and Robin #14

Batman holds aloft the Joker's grotesque, blood-soaked severed face — that unsettling grin stretched wide and dripping — in a cover image that is equal parts horrifying and utterly arresting. Patrick Gleason and Mick Gray deliver an intensely close composition, Batman's cowled visage looming above the grisly trophy with cold, steely fury. Titled "Devoured" and tagged "Smile in the Face of Death," this New 52 chapter from Peter J. Tomasi promises a confrontation between the Dark Knight and something truly, viscerally dark.