Batman Confidential #42

Sam Kieth's distinctive painted style is on full display in this May 2010 entry in DC's Batman Confidential, where a battered, grimacing Dark Knight faces down a grotesque, fang-filled creature with writhing, grasping hands emerging from a smoky mass around it. The blood-dripping title lettering and radiating tension lines amplify the unsettling, visceral mood that Kieth — serving here as writer, artist, and co-colorist alongside José Villarrubia — brings to "Ghosts, Part 3." It's a visually striking chapter in what promises to be a deeply strange and personal Batman story.