Batman: City of Madness #2

Against a striking blood-red background, Batman hangs inverted — coiled and ensnared by enormous, luminous blue-green tentacles that wrap around his dark form with unsettling intimacy — a deeply unsettling image rendered in Christian Ward's painterly, otherworldly style. This second chapter of the DC Black Label series leans fully into the cosmic-horror atmosphere Ward has built, with the Dark Knight looking genuinely imperiled rather than triumphant. Ward's singular vision — writing, drawing, inking, and coloring the entire book himself — makes Batman: City of Madness one of 2024's most visually distinctive Bat-titles.