Batman and Robin #16

Part of the sprawling "Death of the Family" crossover event, this New 52 installment brings writer Peter J. Tomasi and cover artists Patrick Gleason and Mick Gray together for a genuinely unsettling face-off. The cover pulls no punches: a Joker-faced Robin and a grimacing, teeth-bared Batman lunge at each other nose-to-nose, a bloody blade caught between them against a blazing orange background — tension practically radiating off the page. "Madness Runs in the Family!" the cover declares, and with that image staring back at you, it's hard to argue.