Batman Confidential #30

The cover of Batman Confidential #30, rendered by Stéphane Roux, sets a genuinely unsettling scene: a young red-haired girl in pigtails levels a revolver at a heavily armored figure pointing a pistol right back at her, while Batman lunges from above with fierce urgency, a shadowy female figure visible in the background. The tagline "Police Brutality!" sharp across the bottom makes clear that Andrew Kreisberg's "...Bad Cop" story arc is headed somewhere morally complicated. Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens bring their kinetic sensibility to the interiors, promising the kind of tense, street-level drama this 2009 series did so well.